I donāt even hate that movie (I know; Iām a monster, what am I doing here instead of Twitter, et al?) but flipping very uncommitted beliefs via the least-resistant of all possible arguments is kinda its whole deal
Of course it would be THAT movie that flipped her against her previous, supposedly deeply-held-until-now-jerks political beliefs
[Laurie Anderson voice]: It was American cheese. Made in America. When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force.
Fun fact, this was the first CD my family owned after buying a CD player. Good listen!
Oh I still admire the critic, quite a lot. Separating the art from the artist a bit, as it were.
By the way, none of this applies to the rest of you writing on movies. I love reading everything everyone else has to say on the matter, so by any available means, keep it coming!
And yet, such is the irrepressible desire to still create. Iām glad Lean came back to it, even just once. And Iām glad I keep hacking away as time and enthusiasm allows.
Like, āAm I the best director to ever do it? Golly, I sure donāt feel I am. Pip pip, oh well.ā As proud as I have been turning in copy here and there, the pride is that I finished it at all more so than in the substance of what I actually wrote. Not a sensation of futility, just a minor-key āmeh.ā
That gentlemanly thing one does when fighting isnāt in oneās nature perhaps. Maybe the fight actually was in Lean, I havenāt read his biographical deets. But seems to me like his character was such that he filed that piece of info away, experienced no cognitive dissonance from it, and shrugged sadly