Sunday, February 28, 2016

Sadly, This Now Seems Timely


A scene from one of my favorite movies:










4 comments:

Nuncle said...

Yeah, but those balls are THIS BIG!

Counterlight said...

I think that's THE sentiment at Trump rallies.

Gerrit said...

An antidote from Italian Cinema:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3liVqQei9o

...and, minutes later, that heartbreaking scene in a corn field (meadow?) with the desparate young boy and his fascist father on the run: but we will win daddy? we are right aren't we? Daddy?

Oh my word...

Counterlight said...


And there is this movie by the Taviani brothers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADIph1-og3o


I knew people who lived through these events in Bologna, 1943 - 1945. The late Simonetta Franchi used to end her reminiscences of those events with "...and I hope my kids never see anything like that!"

Among many naive beliefs that we Yanks cherish is the one that says we are absolved from history. I hope not to have to repeat that history Simonetta described.