2009/01/21 New York
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Waltz

Responsibility

Last night I went out with a friend and we saw the movie “Waltz with Bashir”.
It’s an excellent movie about war, memory and the limitations of moral responsibility.
In the genre “war movies” perhaps even better than “Platoon”, although it is hard to compare these two movies. (There is one questionable moment in "Waltz with Bashir", but this small flaw doesn’t spoil the movie.)
Bashir by the way is not the name of the main character, Bashir is Bashir Gemayel.


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What's the questionable moment?
said . . 21/01/2009 16:38 • x
Looks chilling, and a nice soundtrack too.
said Bernard f 21/01/2009 19:55 • x
Are we moral responsible? Why is that and why is it limited? Who decided this?
said Dens Powells 21/01/2009 20:28 • x
Dens
Society is built on the assumption that we are responsible for our actions unless proven otherwise.
said Arnon Grunberg 21/01/2009 21:29 • x
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Have you seen this movie?
said Arnon Grunberg 21/01/2009 21:29 • x
I haven't, no.
said . . 21/01/2009 23:14 • x
Sounds interesting.
said Make-up Artist 21/01/2009 23:23 • x
insanity is a bliss
said Dens Powells 21/01/2009 23:55 • x
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Then I suggest you first see the movie.
said Arnon Grunberg 22/01/2009 00:28 • x
Dens
Have you committed a crime?
said Arnon Grunberg 22/01/2009 00:30 • x
Dens
Careful with that axe, Dens.
said Oscar Wilde 22/01/2009 06:17 • x
No, no crime, but life itself is hard enough to bare. You may not see it as me, but I do have an effect on a lot of people's life and I don't like it, because they confront me with it.
I can not imagine what it must be like living like you.
said Dens Powells 22/01/2009 10:03 • x
Soundtrack
Great to hear Johnny Rotten screaming "This is not a love song" accompaniing the movie.
said Richard van Tol 22/01/2009 10:33 • x
@ Dens, here's some advice ;) : always ignore unasked for advice. Humans are parasites who indulge on the vulnerablities of their loved ones.
said aliefka ... 22/01/2009 12:13 • x
Dearest Dens,

when you say: "I do have an effect on a lot of people's life "
You mean like tens, hundreds, thousands......

absolutly yours,

Eric
said Eric W. 23/01/2009 00:13 • x
Eric
Dear Eric, when you ask me questions like "what do you mean" and "why is this". What are you really asking?
said Dens Powells 23/01/2009 17:14 • x
My dear Dens,
I really ask you: do you have an effect on ten people or more, a hundred people or more, a thousand people or more.....?
I have prove that you have at least "an effect" on one person: me.

yours,

Eric
said Eric W. 25/01/2009 03:07 • x
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