![]() ![]() To me, Condor is far more of an escapist thriller than this, which felt far too real. And I was rather surprised by Amy's direct comparison to 3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR, which I didn't think of at all while watching this. I questioned whether or not it mattered that this film is so specific to a time and place to be essential for The Canon. The film did inspire me to do a bit more research about the events that inspired it, as they were almost completely unfamiliar with me. I'm not someone who is automatically able to imprint our current political climate on every past tale of social upheaval, factual or otherwise, but this film did seem far too relevant to today's general mood. That opening seemed rather reminiscent of Buñuel, (there really should be more Buñuel films in The Canon), but soon after that I started to acclimate to the tone of the film more. During the opening scene's discussion of mildew, I honestly wondered if the film was supposed to seem absurd and satyrical. ![]() It took me a little while to get in the rhythm of the film. Anything political these days exhausts and depresses me. Last night I couldn't have been in less of a mood to see the film. But I was determined to give it a chance. I had been aware of this film for years but had never seen it. On the other hand, Hitler apparently knew of Rohm's homosexuality, but is said to have remarked "the SA are a band of warriors and not a moral institution." So, it could be a comment by Gravas on the hypocrisy of fascist institutions privately tolerating behavior which they would officially condemn. Their mass murder in The Night of the Long Knives was partly precipitated by disapproval of endemic inter-generational gay relationships within the SA. On the topic of the gay, fascist thug which seems to be such a hot button here, the first thing that went through my mind was Ernst Rohm and the disgraced SA element in the Nazi Party. Yes to Z, but not at the expense of giving Condor a fair trial. They differ in the degree of directness with which they depict actual events, but otherwise belong to the axis of historical drama and biography. Z, by contrast, has more in common with All the President's Men with its focus on investigation and legal proceedings within a more clearly defined historical context. To my mind, TDOTC is one of an entirely different collection of films which includes the likes of The Parallax View, The Conversation, and Klute in which dramatic scenarios, somewhat removed from real world events, embody the paranoia of their era. episode isn't broadly consistent with what I've been hearing on The Canon. ![]() Yes, it's your podcast and you can do what you like, but excluding TDOTC simply to add weight to the Z decision and without at least according it a vs. I feel that Z is eminently worthy of inclusion, but not at the expense of an equally worthy (and not very similar) film. This is my first time commenting on this board and I'm sorry to say I must withhold my vote. This way it came accross like, "yea, we like peace and justice, but that doesn't make us weak and gay." And that's stupid. How would they react if one of their important supporters did something similar? If you make sexual crimes a subject of your big, epic metaphorical film, you should go through with it, or leave it out all-together. But I really wished for some kind of a counter-balance on the pacifist side of the story. I think, on the other hand, the truly repugnant stuff was the reaction of the state officials who seem to be pretty fine with the rape of boys, as long as the rapist supports the government. I mean that guy is a cynic and a scumbag, pretty much regardless of who he fucks at night. And the character itself didn't came across to me as particularly portraiyng homosexuality in a bad light. I'm usually fine with bad guys being gay, just as I'm fine with good guys being gay. Easy yes vote from me.Īlso, as of that pedophile/gay character: I really think that depiction is a bit stuck in the 60s. somebody pleace make a list with all the analogies to be found in certain contemporary administrations in Turkey, Belarus, Russia, and most recently the U.S. It's simply a damn smart film, all the things are in place in the script and in the way it's shot. this might have been the most surprising personal discovery since I started listening to the canon. ![]()
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