Thanks for the review, which made me nostalgic for the ’90s, smells like teen spirit, black hole sun, etc. That time seems so innocent compared to our media frenzy now. I'll watch Legless just out of curiosity and because I'm a fan of the horror genre.
While on my short summer break, I interrupt some peace and quiet by reading political updates that can only upset me. There's something about humans that’s deeply disappointing. The obsessional behaviour of both sides, which denounces the other as “evil,” is comical. Without an obsession of some kind, can there possibly be any evil? Creep, another 90’s gem, has it all wrong - you think you're a creep because you feel he/she's so angelically special, but all that “beauty” changes and becomes ordinary; the creepy part is in thinking the object of your affection is anything remotely like the good.
The gas chambers, the gulags, the mass graves, religious terrorism and so on are evil in that they are a grotesque abuse of power and strip away the little freedom that people have.
Simone Weil wrote, “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating.” I only agree with the first statement about imaginary evil on par with a talking snake. But real evil is neither boring nor monotonous; it is an insidious force that seeks to consume until there is nothing left to consume, and then it consumes itself. Whatever that may be, real good is quite dull, more like brown, and no Ferraris are sold in brown. The good often goes by unnoticed and unrecognised.
Ah, perhaps that filmmaker will come along with a movie about the good that is just too dull that moviegoers get up and leave halfway through and that critics pan as unbearable. The good just isn’t sexy, exciting, or even sensational. As for imaginary evil, the Bible wouldn't have gotten past ten pages without it.
I read only up to the spoiler section, as I intend to see this movie. How, I don't know, since the local theaters were listing it as "coming soon" until last week, when every trace of it disappeared.
A horror movie that I saw a while back, 'The Black Phone', written by another horror scion, Joe Hill (Stephen King's son), also really nails the atmosphere of its setting and time period (late '70s Colorado) and has this one supernatural element that still somehow works in the otherwise non-supernatural story.
Thanks for the review, which made me nostalgic for the ’90s, smells like teen spirit, black hole sun, etc. That time seems so innocent compared to our media frenzy now. I'll watch Legless just out of curiosity and because I'm a fan of the horror genre.
While on my short summer break, I interrupt some peace and quiet by reading political updates that can only upset me. There's something about humans that’s deeply disappointing. The obsessional behaviour of both sides, which denounces the other as “evil,” is comical. Without an obsession of some kind, can there possibly be any evil? Creep, another 90’s gem, has it all wrong - you think you're a creep because you feel he/she's so angelically special, but all that “beauty” changes and becomes ordinary; the creepy part is in thinking the object of your affection is anything remotely like the good.
The gas chambers, the gulags, the mass graves, religious terrorism and so on are evil in that they are a grotesque abuse of power and strip away the little freedom that people have.
Simone Weil wrote, “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating.” I only agree with the first statement about imaginary evil on par with a talking snake. But real evil is neither boring nor monotonous; it is an insidious force that seeks to consume until there is nothing left to consume, and then it consumes itself. Whatever that may be, real good is quite dull, more like brown, and no Ferraris are sold in brown. The good often goes by unnoticed and unrecognised.
Ah, perhaps that filmmaker will come along with a movie about the good that is just too dull that moviegoers get up and leave halfway through and that critics pan as unbearable. The good just isn’t sexy, exciting, or even sensational. As for imaginary evil, the Bible wouldn't have gotten past ten pages without it.
I read only up to the spoiler section, as I intend to see this movie. How, I don't know, since the local theaters were listing it as "coming soon" until last week, when every trace of it disappeared.
A horror movie that I saw a while back, 'The Black Phone', written by another horror scion, Joe Hill (Stephen King's son), also really nails the atmosphere of its setting and time period (late '70s Colorado) and has this one supernatural element that still somehow works in the otherwise non-supernatural story.