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[olamina]

Endless Bummer

Remember how I raved about seeing Mike Daisey's Invincible Summer? Well, last week something pretty terrible happened at one of his performances...

From his website:
Last night's performance of INVINCIBLE SUMMER was disrupted when eighty seven members of a Christian group walked out of the show en masse, and chose to

Comments

[opiateslopes]

isn't that daisey shit ridiculous? someone at the stranger blog commented that this is exactly what the pre-nazis would do at cultural events and to artists in germany in the 20's and 30's.

[olamina]

Yeah. Wow! Nazis? Eek!

[blackmoth]

Exactly what I was thinking! Uggh

[donuty]

Children of Men was one of the best movies I've seen this year! I don't know what you're talking about, lady!

[olamina]

I thought it was terrible. I was SO ready to like it. It was a total gimme and it failed.

[uberdionysus]

Ditto. It's in the Top 5 from last year, easy.

[olamina]

I thought it sucked horribly. Way too incoherent.

[nyoka]

Children of Men...I was mixed on it initially, but overall for a Hollywood movie, I thought it did a decent job. Cinematography was amazing, but the script was so *weak.* The book did a much better job of explicating the themes and intertwining the story. I thought where the movie was strongest in capturing the "mood" of war/breaking down the impact of war on innocents...visually it took you (as viewer) into a war zone (made primarily of people of color) and the realism and comparison to modern day events was really on my mind when I was watching it. It wasn't the best apocalyptic sci-fi film in creation, but thematically it hit some good notes. Oh, and I thought it captured radical activist culture pretty good too, lol.

[olamina]

I didnt think of it as being very Hollywood, it felt like a big indie to me but you could be right...

I felt like it was a bad action/sci fi film. About 75% of the film was people dodging bullets against a grey background. While watching all the poor crying "fugees" all I could think about was that episode of Extras with Ben Stiller where they are trying to sort out how best to look like suffering poor people. It is such a vulgar parade. If I never see a dramatization of a poor huddled mass of refugees or internees or anything it will be too soon.

Yeah there were some funny activist culture moments, but I am still firmly solidly committed to saying that it sucked.

[flying_squid]

I read about Invincible Summer on BoingBoing... And my one co-worker wonders why I don't like the fundies of Campus Crusade at the college I work at. That shit is awful and wrong. ARGH!

[olamina]

I don't even understand what caused the big hubbub. It wasn't the standard "pray in school/stay in the closet/dont have an abortion/instead send your poor and unwanted baby to war/ because science is bad and God created everything" line. Even after Mike talked to the ringleader he stll didn't get a clear answer.

Christians like this make Christians like me bang our heads against brick walls in frustration.

[flying_squid]

Christians like that made me not want to be a Christian anymore (in addition to other things, but finding out about them helped with my decision to stop being one).

[olamina]

That's ashame. :(

[shnob]

Great perfomance! You know, here in Miami we hate people from NYC. REALLY! Navel of the world!))

But i'm still in shocked about reaction of that guy, it's freedom of speach..