It's good to see you on LJ, Mila. Sad that these are the circumstances, but good that you post it. Someone commented on it that the murders seem so consistently brutal. I think it is so because the worst deeds of humanity have been done by the "normal" against the "outsiders," the fires of rage that too often burn against people who are simply different.
I was compelled to look up a scene from one of my favorite films, the documentary Resident Alien, about Quentin Crisp. Quentin became famous from his book The Naked Civil Servant, and the film of the book starring John Hurt as Crisp. In one Resident Alien scene, Crisp and Hurt are shown viewing the segment of The Naked Civil Servant where Crisp was in semi-drag, his personal style in the 1930s/40s, and a crowd is beating him up. Hurt mentions a note written about the movie which said: "I realized it was about the tenderness of the individual against the cruelty of the crowd."
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Sad that these are the circumstances, but good that you post it.
Someone commented on it that the murders seem so consistently brutal.
I think it is so because the worst deeds of humanity have been done
by the "normal" against the "outsiders," the fires of rage that too
often burn against people who are simply different.
I was compelled to look up a scene from one of my favorite films, the
documentary Resident Alien, about Quentin Crisp. Quentin became
famous from his book The Naked Civil Servant, and the film of the
book starring John Hurt as Crisp.
In one Resident Alien scene, Crisp and Hurt are shown viewing the
segment of The Naked Civil Servant where Crisp was in semi-drag,
his personal style in the 1930s/40s, and a crowd is beating him up. Hurt
mentions a note written about the movie which said:
"I realized it was about the tenderness of the individual against the
cruelty of the crowd."
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