Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

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So here’s a campaign of cancellation that even the American Right could like: the calls to boycott “Mulan” over its complicity in China’s repression of the Uighur Muslims, and its authoritarian control over Hong Kong. Instead of giving justice shout-outs from social media, why not refuse complicity in the injustice of Chinese Communism? The American…

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In reply to Roderick T. Long. Yeah, the Conrad comment is dumb as hell. Incidentally, Heart of Darkness has a long speech near the end, by Marlow, so it’s another one of those of those speech-laden novels. Rand’s comment on Conrad in the …

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Admittedly, the recreation of the Pietà at the foot of the cross at the end of the movie is a bit much. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I hadn’t seen it, thanks. “Francisco d’Antonio” — well, that’s a bit sloppy. “F. R. Leavis complained of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness that the author was forever gesturing in the ge…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Many aspects of it are better than the 1950 version. But alas, Depardieu, while okay, does not measure up to Ferrer, for me. Also for English subtitles they use the Burgess translation, which I find inferior to the Hooker tr…

Finally got to see Episode 9. Have you ever seen the 1990 version of Cyrano with Gerard Depardieu and Anne Brochet? Thoughts? I’ve never seen the 1950 version. LikeLike