compromise the human condition, or pure chance

Rating: 9/10 (10 March 2008)

Viewing this in March 2008, in Ireland, for the first time, in the midst of the Obama campaign, after losses in Texas and Ohio,the dominant emotion is despair about the human condition. At best, we might know what is right to do, but the situation constantly throws nastiness, accidents, impulsive action, thoughtlessness, rage, humiliation, annihilation, and beyond anything possible, some dream of a miracle, hallucinated probably, defying the awful hell of de-personalised, stereo-typed, pre-judged attitudes. In many ways, this is strained in its plot coincidences, and repetitive in its thematic structure, slipping towards nihilistic random acts in which character can flip instantly to opposite roles. Whether we live or die, or do the right thing or the worst possible, is a random particle in an ocean of possibilities. Good sound track, but hell of a place to live. I won't be visiting L.A. or the USA anytime soon, but hope Obama wins, though I doubt it, or if anyone will read this.