Not much to say on current events. The economy seems to be creaking back into operation even without a virus vaccine. On the aftermath of the George Floyd killing etc., violent protests are wrong, but I think the anti-racist movement has a point. Many people aren’t racist but are passive about those who are and in a sense complicit in racism. Could someone have stopped Dylan Roof before he murdered?
For some reason, the 2000 movie Waking the Dead (not the BBC TV show by that name) has been on my mind this week. I haven’t seen it in a long time and don’t usually like romantic tearjerkers, but I thought it was very well done. The plot is very different, but it reminds me of The Great Gatsby in the way it dramatizes the intersection of career and material ambition with personal lives.
The 2000 movie is about an up-and-coming, straight-laced politician (Billy Crudup) who falls for a radical leftist woman (Jennifer Connelly). It’s about haunting, and as with most ghost stories, it’s up to the audience how literally you take it. It’s based on a novel I haven’t read, and the direction and production quality is very good.