“Attention must be paid to such a man.” While Valkyrie highlights the resistance made by Claus Von Stauffenberg, it doesn’t pay enough attention to the man himself. Valkyrie is a well-made, tightly woven story of a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer and save not only Germany via a truce with the Allies, but in doing so [...]
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Valkyrie–The Meaning of Resistance
Posted in Art, Culture, Uncategorized, tagged Bonhoeffer, character, story, the German Resistance, Valkyrie on December 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Favorite G.K. Chesterton Passages
Posted in Art, Literature, Religion, tagged chesterton quotes, Thomas Aquinas on January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
G.K. Chesterton (1818-1901), the great British mystery writer and Dickens critic, wrote a life of Thomas Aquinas called The Dumb Ox, a pejorative leveled at Aquinas’ bulking presence and quietude by some of his fellow students. Chesterton asserts that nothing could be further from the truth and spends the whole of the book praising Aquinas’ [...]
High Art: The Beautiful Writing of Anton Ego in Ratatouille
Posted in Art, Culture, Literature, tagged Anton Ego, Art, film, Ratatouille, writing on January 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Well, it certainly ain’t James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, but Ratatouille, Pixar’s stellar computer animated film about a Rat’s quest to cook, has some great language capping the end of the film. The writer behind the food critic, Anton Ego, uses a turn of phrase and some self-analysis of a critic’s role that is both [...]
