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The Road was the most horrifying movie I've ever watched, thanks to having kids. Being unable to protect your children like in that movie hit all my primitive parental fears.
The Road was the most horrifying movie I've ever watched, thanks to having kids. Being unable to protect your children like in that movie hit all my primitive parental fears.
The Road was the most horrifying movie I've ever watched, thanks to having kids. Being unable to protect your children like in that movie hit all my primitive parental fears.
Is the hit just a visceral one, though, or one that's well written for the right reasons?
A book I have never read and never will. (I watched the Wendigoon 5 hour review of it so I know the plot though) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu6STuj4njw edit: Downvotes? I will never watch A Serbian Film either, are you going to downvote me for that too?
Everybody talks about the violence in BM but that's not its point. It's not an exploitation story designed to shock for the sheer fun of shocking. To me it's a beautifully-written poetic exploration of a world without evil. For evil to exist there must be something else to compare it to. And there's nothing else in BM . It's just a mundane world of unceasing animal violence reduced to the quotidian. I imagine the inh…
Everyone should read it for the writing style alone, it's great.
> McCarthy shares none of these inclinations. His characters ride aimlessly through the desert and kill for what seems like no reason at all. Blood Meridian is a book that reflects a particular moment in history, but his characters have no sense of that history, are otherwise immune to time, and seem oblivious to the forces ordering their world. This is my biggest issue with all McCarthy's works. They feel like point…
There is a strong philosophical message in the works of McCarthy, but it's not explicit, you have to synthesize it. If you read his best works being totally oblivious to what he's really saying, then they'll feel like pointless exercises in sadism and cruelty. Blood Meridian is perhaps the easiest of his works to understand in that regard, since he's as far from deliberate occultation as he can possibly be. The philo…
If you have to be briefed on what an author is "really saying" outside of the story conveying it, what's the point?
If you have to explain the joke it's not funny.
> McCarthy shares none of these inclinations. His characters ride aimlessly through the desert and kill for what seems like no reason at all. Blood Meridian is a book that reflects a particular moment in history, but his characters have no sense of that history, are otherwise immune to time, and seem oblivious to the forces ordering their world. This is my biggest issue with all McCarthy's works. They feel like point…
This book made a lot more sense to me when it was explained as a Gnostic fable and the Judge as the Archon.
Great article. Thanks for sharing. I can stomach stories of what happened between Germany and Russia in lands between them in WW2, so I can probably handle the violence in this. It does sound gruesome. I'm not surprised his fiction is history because he really didn't have to embellish anything, just see it accurately.
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There is a strong philosophical message in the works of McCarthy, but it's not explicit, you have to synthesize it. If you read his best works being totally oblivious to what he's really saying, then they'll feel like pointless exercises in sadism and cruelty. Blood Meridian is perhaps the easiest of his works to understand in that regard, since he's as far from deliberate occultation as he can possibly be. The philo…
-> If you read his best works being totally oblivious to what he's really saying If you have to be briefed on what an author is "really saying" outside of the story conveying it, what's the point? If you have to explain the joke it's not funny.
We have English literature classes for the very purpose of finding and discussing these and other themes. The point of Shakespeare, Dickens, and Orwell aren't always immediately understood to some readers, even if they sense that there's something to be taken from what they're reading.
The Road was the most horrifying movie I've ever watched, thanks to having kids. Being unable to protect your children like in that movie hit all my primitive parental fears.
Is the hit just a visceral one, though, or one that's well written for the right reasons?