IDFA 2002
Vrijdag 22 november 2002, 23:30 - 00:49 City Journeys with George (shot in 2000)
in fact, what we saw, was another very fine example of the entwinement of Hollywood & Politix: a long home-video by a comic sidekick of the future president of the US
key image was, of course, the half-circle shot, taken slowly enough to be more than just an image, of the (beheaded?) jester, looking very sorry for himself
the real tragedy could be, of course again, that the jester´s head is not so much referring to Alexandra, but to George W. himself, since there isn´t really a textbook on how to be the single most important man in the world, one might as well be a stage-act
on the other hand, would I have liked to see a bunch of pseudo-, back-stabbing intellectuals in the Gore press- pack? it´s somehow reassuring enough that Bush´s press- pack could turn into a pack-o´-wolves at the snap of some twenty lines of an old and unnoticed interview, not afraid of biting the hand that fed them
suffice to say that Alexandra Pelosi was insightful enough to realize that her enthusiasm was on a more humane level, not of the hard-boiled professionalism, or, as she called it, "cannibalism"
maybe she should have listened to her mother anyhow
Vrijdag 22 november 2002, 23:30 - 00:49 City Journeys with George (shot in 2000)
in fact, what we saw, was another very fine example of the entwinement of Hollywood & Politix: a long home-video by a comic sidekick of the future president of the US
key image was, of course, the half-circle shot, taken slowly enough to be more than just an image, of the (beheaded?) jester, looking very sorry for himself
the real tragedy could be, of course again, that the jester´s head is not so much referring to Alexandra, but to George W. himself, since there isn´t really a textbook on how to be the single most important man in the world, one might as well be a stage-act
on the other hand, would I have liked to see a bunch of pseudo-, back-stabbing intellectuals in the Gore press- pack? it´s somehow reassuring enough that Bush´s press- pack could turn into a pack-o´-wolves at the snap of some twenty lines of an old and unnoticed interview, not afraid of biting the hand that fed them
suffice to say that Alexandra Pelosi was insightful enough to realize that her enthusiasm was on a more humane level, not of the hard-boiled professionalism, or, as she called it, "cannibalism"
maybe she should have listened to her mother anyhow