tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085806408974831811.post3823383212842940125..comments2023-11-03T06:49:06.257-04:00Comments on Alexander Greenberg's Blog: Alex Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835512384688605301noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085806408974831811.post-69649905103265495892008-09-14T18:47:00.000-04:002008-09-14T18:47:00.000-04:00I made some changes, mostly to the last paragraph,...I made some changes, mostly to the last paragraph, to reflect this exchange.Alex Greenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835512384688605301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085806408974831811.post-24404418454358078382008-09-14T11:28:00.000-04:002008-09-14T11:28:00.000-04:00At the same time, I think that there is a continui...At the same time, I think that there is a continuity between this film and No Country for Old Men, and that Anton Chigurh is not open to the same kind of critique. The question thus remains: are the filmmakers disdaining or lamenting with their audience?Alex Greenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835512384688605301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085806408974831811.post-31293036067647882632008-09-14T11:04:00.000-04:002008-09-14T11:04:00.000-04:00I think you're right about stupidity being a compl...I think you're right about stupidity being a completely shared trait. John Malkovich, who accuses everyone else of being stupid, does not escape the verdict. I'm going to rewrite some of this and incorporate that idea.Alex Greenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835512384688605301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085806408974831811.post-34552255382856809512008-09-14T03:21:00.000-04:002008-09-14T03:21:00.000-04:00brilliant. i just saw this and had a similar emoti...brilliant. i just saw this and had a similar emotional reaction, though of course without the intellectual synthesis. <BR/><BR/>the head wounds are literally the money shots. the stupidity, though, i would say is shared by everyone. the successful are the ones who have been trained to simply act without thinking (clooney and mcdormand's characters) and the ones so well-insulated by money and power that they have the privilege of commenting on what they don't comprehend in the slightest (the CIA people). stupidity is power for some and not for others.<BR/><BR/>in a sense the film displays what has to be true for social darwinism to be an accurate theory of society. so this deterministic 'worldview,' which doesn't really criticize itself just pushes the message twice as hard, is at once the film's strength and its weakness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com