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2004-10-04 Home Front: Culture Wars
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Posted by The Caucasus Nerd 2004-10-04 12:00:37 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 yawn.. so 20th Century. Geezers.
Posted by 2b 2004-10-04 12:03:43 AM||   2004-10-04 12:03:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Benigni is swallowing the Edward Said thesis of Orientalism despite the fact that this thesis is substantially discredited.
Posted by mhw 2004-10-04 12:42:47 AM||   2004-10-04 12:42:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Didn't Benigni star in a warm-hearted comedy about a Nazi death camp?
Posted by SteveS 2004-10-04 1:22:35 AM||   2004-10-04 1:22:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 
The "other movie" link doesn't work.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-10-04 5:35:15 AM||   2004-10-04 5:35:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Steve,
Yes. Benigni starred in and directed "Life is Beautiful" ("Vita è bella" in Italian).

He won numerous awards for this film.

I wouldn't call it 'warm hearted'; more bitter sweet with some warm moments and some starkly terrifying moments.
Posted by mhw 2004-10-04 6:33:35 AM||   2004-10-04 6:33:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I understand that poets flocked to Iraq after '91.
Posted by Super Hose 2004-10-04 4:42:16 PM||   2004-10-04 4:42:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Vita Bella was such a liberal fantasy - even though it was a nice one.

All you have to do is believe that the world is beautiful and viola! Thus it is so! Refuse to acknowledge reality and without doing a thing, or fighting back, you can make evil go away.

Sure, it works great in movies. But in reality, that the kid would have been snatched within a day or two and put to hard labor or used for medical experiments after watching his dad walk off to the showers. Hey...I know it was only a movie and (sniff, sniff) it was beautiful because they imagined. [cue John Lenons "Imagine" music from background]

Someone should remind him that what made the ending happy in Vita Bella was the arrival of the American soldiers.
Posted by 2b 2004-10-04 5:10:05 PM||   2004-10-04 5:10:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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