I wasn't aware there was a film, but it is a great, great novel. Dan My latest book, my first novel. trotskyintijuana.com
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:14 PM R.O. <[email protected]> wrote: > David Walsh' wsws-review of Ciro Guerro's Waiting for the Barbarians (IMDb > rating 5.8) is right to argue that this is an anti-imperialist movie and > not the right wing sorry ass judgment of the Times *"Barbarians instead > aspires to hook an anti-colonialist mentality to an old-school Orientalist > narrative style."* The Times must be confused about Colonel Joll (Depp) > being a colonialist while he in fact he serves Empire. (I wonder if colonel > and colonial are etymologically related, probably) The last take suggests > the coming of the 'Barbarians'. It is no hard guess who has so much horses. > Only Empire. > It certainly did outrage me, this jerk Depp has enough talent for that, > and strenghted my hatred of men who wear uniforms with insignia without > scruples. If only a more gentle barbarian age arrived after > Americanism...That is a conclusion Walsh does not make, but primitivists > do. Barbarians is not quiet pro-nomad (a peacefull nomadic primitivism) > because in one take, the nomads take the silver from the Magistrate who > returns the tortured woman and the nomads promised not take his horses in > return. In another take a dead soldier of Empire tied on a horse with an > open skull returns to the fortress as a declaration of war from the nomads. > Colonel Jolly Joll accomplished this state of war in only one week after > his arrival in the fortress at empire's border. (There is no history at the > border claims Joll) In the end he returns wounded in his carriage after a > probable attack by the nomads. This is missing in the film. Walsh aligns > himself with the Magistrate and the Law. So there are three angles from > which you can approach this movie: Empire, Law and Nomads. I prefer the > latter. > > --R.O. > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1687): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1687 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76914160/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
