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LIFE DURING WARTIME – THE ENEMY IS WITHIN

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September 7, 2011

Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime is a quasi-sequel to his controversial 1998 movie Happiness. Like Happiness the plot revolves around three sisters – Joy, Trish and Helen. Joy is plagued by the ghosts of dead lovers, Helen is“crushed by the enormity of her success” and Trish just wants a man who isn’t screwed up.

Confusingly, the main characters are the same but the actors are different ; I didn’t , for instance, connect Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s Allen with the role played Michael K. Williams (It doesn’t help that I always see the latter as Omar from The Wire).

In explaining his unconventional approach Solondz said: “I was more interested in approaching these characters from a different angle and portraying them in a fresh light, and I wouldn’t have been able to do this if I had cast the same people”. Continue reading →

Tags: Beck, Charlotte Rampling, Devendra Banhart, happiness, Life During Wartime, Michael K. Williams, pedophilia, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Todd Solondz

JESUS CHRIST – MAN OR MESSIAH?

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August 24, 2011

The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman hopes that his brief retelling of the life of Jesus Christ will encourage people to read, or re-read, the bible. It is not that he is interested in persuading sceptics to believe; more that he wants people to recognise the story’s power while also noting the inconsistencies and implausibility of many of the events documented.

How, for example could the scribes have known what happened in the wilderness. since the supposed son of God was alone at the time and as Pullman observes in the afterword: “Jesus does not tell stories about himself”.

In this short book, part of the Canongate ‘Myths’ series, Pullman imagines Jesus and Christ as two separate beings – “the man Jesus whom the Gospels talked about , and ……Christ, the Messiah, who featured more prominently in the Epistles”.

His point here is not to satirize or attack the biblical story but to speculate on how the original story came to be recorded. He shows how the ‘miracles’ were more likely to be the result of creative embellishment on the part of the writers than accurate accounts of the actual events.