Ridley Scott Destroys Religious Artifacts

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1. patrick Says:
   January 30th, 2008 at 00:30

   I have viewed several Scott films and found them to be blue-light specials as far as entertainment is concerned. In other words, I enjoyed them but I did find them geared to activate our most common and comfortable cultural responses, and I have come to realize that responses blue-light or otherwise are now fine with me. My yahoo review on Scott's A Good Year is one example: (When I see Russell Crowe acting as a british investment broker falling in love with a heavily-eyebrowed french goddess (Marion Cotillard), I wonder if love itself is real and really attainable, or if it is simply someone's notion of an ideal state in this highly accelerated aging process called "life". I say that with the idea that the film itself is 'unreal' if not 'contrived' because all of its ingredients are combined to elicit our most culturally-ingrained responses to love and romance. My words may sound romantically-void and cynical, but they are really meant to sound their opposite which is both old world romantic and new world affection. In other words, I enjoyed the film immensely, not for its fun pokes at the standard stereotype of the American turistas, but for its re-reflections of love's notions which appear to be forgotten in most American cinema, where blood, guts, and guns are the rule. I enjoyed the film because it reminded me that culturally-appropriate responses are as equally important as all of our unique and individual responses, whatever they may be. It reminded me that love itself, as inappropriate as it is in today's uber and cyber world, is still a phenomena that endures and requires response. It reminded me that love's notions may be eratic and irrational, but they persist and insist on reaction, whatever that may be, because love is a condition of nature that observes no rules of man or beast.)

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