By David Templeton Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to interesting movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. In the ancient world, it was thought that blood was where life resided. It was sacred. But in modern times, we've become too squeamish about blood. We don't understand the power of it, don't give blood the respect it deserves.
People get uneasy, they're disgusted, they faint at the sight of blood.
Diament laughs, softly, almost affectionately. She saw the film last night, in Boston, near the small town of Newtonville, where she lives with her husband and daughter. It's true all over the world. The fact that there is now medical technology to make it relatively safe is a fairly recent phenomenon. I am personally not nostalgic for any period of history prior to antibiotics.