Sunday, December 25, 2005
Lest I forget...
Been neglectful, but I am required to note at least once in the life of this blog my special reason for finding Episodes I-III so enervating. (Find your own link to this one; it's kind of easy!)
It's not just that they're bloated and slow moving and that the first features a kid actor.
It's the context: the disintegration of a democracy (of sorts) into an oppressive fascist state, instigated, initiated and enabled by those for whom wealth is all, even as the same, albeit on a lesser scale, was occurring here. Memo to GL: movies are for escaping reality, not to be reminded of it; I didn't have this problem with Episodes IV-VI.
It's not just that they're bloated and slow moving and that the first features a kid actor.
It's the context: the disintegration of a democracy (of sorts) into an oppressive fascist state, instigated, initiated and enabled by those for whom wealth is all, even as the same, albeit on a lesser scale, was occurring here. Memo to GL: movies are for escaping reality, not to be reminded of it; I didn't have this problem with Episodes IV-VI.
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