tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post4224799119782553559..comments2024-03-28T02:30:08.913-04:00Comments on Not Just Movies: White MaterialJakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078001374402400232noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-38095300441637802772010-12-03T01:04:14.730-05:002010-12-03T01:04:14.730-05:00Yeah, they're simply a force, something that e...Yeah, they're simply a force, something that exists under whatever party claims control because they are the fountain of evil from which everything else comes. It's a dark take on childhood, but one I think is valid. Emerson, after all, believed that we should all strive not to be the adults crowded around a baby cooing and nursing it but the baby itself, existing only to its own end, not to anyone else's. An infant has no instinctive empathy, no ability to care about others, hell, no ability to separate needs from wants. The children seen here couldn't care less about revolution: they just use the chaos to fulfill their unformed and unchecked desires.Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078001374402400232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-78651746389798590312010-12-03T00:43:34.821-05:002010-12-03T00:43:34.821-05:00This is an incredible, all-encompassing review of ...This is an incredible, all-encompassing review of one of the best movies of the year. <br /><br />"To see them simply appear on hills in beautifully scary shots engenders a gripping feel, a sense of unstoppable corruption and unyielding bloodlust. So mad are these children that they in turn drive the son, Manuel, to insanity when they beset the plantation and torture the young man with a disturbing mixture of premature hardness and a warped form of childhood playtime." <br /><br />So well put. There really is an uncanny disturbance to these scenes with children, seemingly untethered as they are to any specific political goals. They are just dealers of violence, nothing more, and it's disgusting how it is their inexplicable behavior that propels this hopeless guy Manuel into becoming an unmotivated vigilante.Carson Lundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10164962777812861110noreply@blogger.com