Liturgical Calendar
The Saints * Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia * Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow * Saint Peter II, Bishop of Sebaste (4th c.) * Venerable Eustratius the Wonderworker (9th c.) * Saint Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow (1569) Fasting No Fast Readings Epistle: James 4.7-5.9 Gospel: Mark 11.27-33
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Chapter 4 of The Character of Peoples by André Siegfried Germany is an essential part of the European system and has had more influence on its modern development than any other country. He sees Germany as essentially continental, with a contact with Eastern Europe that the French do not possess,
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Bateman is a satanic figure, filled with disgust and pride, his ultimate desire is the total destruction of the world. He perceives no value in anything, leading to a state that is not merely fatalistic but actively nihilistic.
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The establishment was horrified by the first film’s success. The *wrong* people identified with the wrong aspects of the character. The audience sympathised with the nihilist rather than rejecting him.
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Lynch constructs a neo-noir occult psychodrama, an autopsy of the Hollywood soul. The narrative is a Mobius strip, a non-linear loop where time is a flat circle and the characters are trapped in a purgatorial cycle of their own making.
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Released weeks before the September 11th Attacks, a film about a jet engine falling out of a clear blue sky to crush a suburban home, it captures the psychic atmosphere of a world on the brink of an irrevocable shift.
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The film ends not with a shootout, but with a dream. Bell, retired and defeated, recounts a dream of his father riding past him in the night, carrying fire in a horn, going ahead to light a fire in the darkness.
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It establishes the universe of the film as a gnostic prison. The characters are not autonomous beings possessing free will; they are dolls moving through a pre-constructed set, manipulated by unseen hands.
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These 'elites' operate by an entirely distinct code of ethics, looking at the manipulation of reality and global events as an intricate game or a labyrinth.
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The answer to the riddle of Charles Foster Kane is incinerated, turning into black smoke. It suggests that the soul of the oligarch is ultimately unknowable, because, in the end, there was nothing there to know.