Five Things: No. 91. I watched Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film Julieta (2016) this week and thought it
Five Things: No. 91. I watched Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film Julieta (2016) this week and thought it was wonderful; really quietly moving at the very end, and beautiful and compelling.2. I’m reading SPQR by Mary Beard at the moment, which I only started a couple of days ago but am already well into it due to its fluidity and interest and intelligence; a really brilliant, engaging interrogation into the ancient world.3. I’ve been listening to Prefab Sprout quite a bit lately; I’m not really sure why, but “When Love Breaks Down” keeps getting played and played and played on my Spotify.4. “The same slogans cropped up time and time again throughout the year of Occupy, and everywhere young people in this low, dishonest decade have found themselves struggling to reconcile the messy morality of modern politics with simpler—and perhaps quite radical—ideas of good and evil. As the police started to crack down on the demonstrations, I heard young activists yelling “Expelliarmus!” at rows of riot cops. The disarming spell, perhaps the definition of non-violent protest, twee as hell and oddly heartbreaking, with a very simple question at its heart: Why are adults so much crueller than we were promised before we became them? Why is human evil so much more banal and harder to beat?” — Laurie Penny wrote a very good article all about Harry Potter and liberalism at The Baffler.5. The Night Of — Three episodes in; intriguing; intrigued: good telly. -- source link
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