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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

[uberdionysus]

Wow. Just watched the video and read his responses. I love that he forgave the guy. Priceless.

[olamina]

It is totally priceless.
I also love that he got the guy to open up and fall to pieces in conversation. So many of these fundamentalists are horribly hollow.

[uberdionysus]

When I was in the Christian cult, most of them had come out of bad pasts, most dealing with addiction. I felt that a lot of them used Christianity as a new social addicition, and most seemed to have a poor understanding of Christ's message. I mean, it's pretty obvious that after fealty, tolerance is the biggest theme he harps on.

[olamina]

Yeah I had a fairly good upbringing an even I have hd a hard time resisting the allure of various cultish groups. I am constantly saying that I am not qualified to run my own life, but I continue to run it because the people who are willing/wanting to run it are never up to any good.

[anonymous]

i love both owen and moore. however, 'children of men' bit the big one. terrible movie. it's faux apocalypse (apocalypse lite) with a very crypto-catholic slant. i've seen it praised often. however, all the praise pertains to one long CNN-footage style shot (that isn't all that original). allegedly, the filmmaking there is radical, just because of continuity and the failure to wipe "blood" from the lens. the story is simplistic and the dialogue entirely lacks zing (for zing and narrative arch, see whedon's brilliant 'serenity'). apocalyptic stories enjoy built-in pathos. it's difficult not to feel (at least a little) moved by them. but one must distinguish between well and poorly made monumental tragedy. cormac mccarthy's 'the road' is similar. the prose is, ninety percent of the time, high school hack-work. just plain bad. but it's chilling (solely) because of its topic. (imho, mccarthy is the most overrrated novelist of the past fifty years.) i should say that i can't abide michael caine. - blainerunner.

[olamina]

you're baaaaack!

ive been missing you!

[anonymous]

it failed, i think (although i haven't read the book) because it tried to be about *both* natural disaster (fate), in the form of global infertility, *and* politically organized oppression. 'children of men' tried to address two distinct types of crisis, man-made and inevitable. yes; a good film could be made about how unjust governments respond to natural disaster, but 'c of m' isn't that film. the issue of race/xenophobia seemed gratuitous in the context of the situation. teh film *wanted* to be radical in too many ways. i think its aim was to show how prejudice/organized inequality injures everybody (even the priviliged). however, this message got lost, in my opinion, in the film's sea of hyperactive political indictment. - blainerunner.

[olamina]

i agree totally.

[olamina]

Zizek on Children of Men
http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/2006/12/zizek_and_child.html