THE MUTILATION OF POTENTIAL GOOD BY GUILT AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SOLUTION VIA REACTION FORMATIONS

 

Just having watched Brad Dourif's journey into 'Preacher Madness', in WISE BLOOD, and Ryan Reynold's equally disturbing journey through repression and guilt in THE VOICES.....I just watched the previews of  Antonio Campus's latest installment in Sinister Cinema, THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME.....yet another vehicle for Robert Pattison's Dark Passenger........and the first 3 installments of the remake of AMERICAN GIGOLO; I'm feeling some concern about the Persistent Dark Direction of American Cinema......reflecting the increasingly psychotic fare that seems to be emerging from flat screens

Even though its special effects and production design were more cerebrally satisfying than a dozen Super-Powered Caped Hero MARVEL/DC Mall Movies........

 

... I wasn't enthralled with the new DUNE.....it was just, like the book upon which all the Dune Films are based....just too Religious.......Hey, isn't this supposed to be 'happening' waaay in the future....10,000 years or so......with these humans and human-ishs......still, observing all the ritualized devotion to a  rather Muslim conceptualization of Universal Order and Ritualized Obedience to Royal Hierarchy......I wanted to hitch a ride on a flying, mechanical dragonfly-copter....and do the Time Warp to some other Imaginary, less dusty,  Theme Park.......in another dimension.....but a giant sand worm must have swallowed my plastic transporter pin........At least this viewing was free (free weekend of HBO) and there were no teenagers, digging into those tubs of greased salty popcorn.......  There was some Irony,  I thought, as I watched a few minutes of the hullabaloo of QEII's death and formal transfiguration into History Books........all that Pomp & Disingenuous Ceremony brought to mind the arrival and death of Duke Leto, after his family's installation as Royalty...on Arrakis.....