I’m going to rile my T. Pres. friends and say that I liked The Constant Gardener. I read the book a couple summers ago and just watched the film this weekend. The differences between the two did not seem to be significant, and I thought the movie was well-made. Comments?

Update:

I am not sure that the use of flashbacks in the beginning of the film was necessary. I mean, it establishes that she dies very early on, but I don’t think that I should know that. Or, if the director wants to show me that this is all the memory of Justin, then why does he differentiate between the entire first half of the film and the memories that Justin has when visiting the Chelsea house? Why use two different techniques for what should be the same sort of memories.

Update #2:

I wonder when someone will make a film about this?

“THus, Derrida reads Totality and Infinity as an exercise in exposing
philosophy to its other, exposing the Greek to teh Jew.” (emphasis mine)

I think berek is ghost-writing Leithart’s posts.

Little Evelyn is six months old today and she refuses to eat her pears.

In celebration of this momentous ocassion, ABC has decided to run a new episode of LOST tonight.

An interesting note by James Billinger on the Soviet treatment of Hamlet: “A production of Hamlet during the period of the first five-year plan portrayed the Danish prince as a fat and decadent coward who recites ‘to be or not to be’ half-drunk in a bar. A critic of that period went so far as to claim that the real hero of the play was Fortinbras. He alone had a positive goal; and the fact that he came from victory in battle to pronounce the final words of the play symbolized rational, militant modernity triumphing over the ‘feudal morality’ of pointless bloodletting that had dominated the last act prior to his arrival.” (via Dr. Leithart)

Actually, the more interesting and applicable portions of Billinger’s thoughts on Russia and Hamlet have to do with the Christology of the play. You can find that too at Leithart’s site.

Christian artist chains legs during meditation and loses key in abandoned mine shaft. Hobbles five miles through desert into town.

At least he went back to finish his meditation when the fire department cut him loose.