1) at pfs we have been a bit scattered as of late: but of course we have been finding random spur of the moment times to see movies, here are a few some of us have seen
a) the wind that shakes the barley
b) antoine and collete
c) the blue kite
2) eric posted an interesting comment about "army of shadows" and "the wind that shakes the barley" in reference to the fact that "army of shadows" will out on criterion soon, check it out:
there is a murder scene in Army of Shadows where a normal man (a doctor i believe) is called upon to execute another man, by strangling him. he wraps a knotted towel around a stick, loops it over the man’s head, and twists until the tightness of his weapon forces the tightness of the victim’s body to wilt, and he ceases to resist.
the thing that strikes me about it is afterwards - the look he gives he compatriots - before he begins running and running. it’s a lot like certain scenes in the new Ken Loach movie “The Wind That Shakes the Barley.” it’s very personal, and very close. there is no fooling oneself in these murders: a life is being extinguished.
being forced to kill someone is one element of revolution that takes normal revolutionary-oriented folks like us and forces us to wonder, how far would you go for your cause? would you kill someone? would you stop killing them halfway through if it got too tough to do? would you think about them dying as you did it? how about after?
the blatant humanity of killing someone in close quarters makes it a very different thing - forces you to confront the value of your high ideals with the immediate value of a human life. nothing like that craziness over there right now of shoot and shoot and don’t check the dust afterwards. would you kill someone if it meant the end of capitalism? how many people would you kill if it *meant the end of capitalism?* hmm?
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