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Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Anti-Insel

Der erste Dollar des Krabbenknaben Ausserhalb des Wassers stehen Black Skimmer aufgereiht, dutzende von langen roten Schnäbeln parallelgerichtet, Elementarfischmagnete auf Jagdpause. Im Wasser ein paar Meter entfernt scheint nichts zu leben, keine Fische, keine Krebse, nur vereinzelte Watvögel und ein paar federlose Hühner stehen in den Fluten. Hier aber, begrenzt vom Ufer einerseits und einer […]

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Chan-wook Park – Oldboy (1)

I enjoy watching movies with advertised surprise endings, not attempting to guess the twist beforehand so that it can have maximum impact. Here, I vaguely suspected the ending about halfway through, enough to take away the bottomless feeling I distinctly remember from having in The Sixth Sense, which is too bad. That doesn’t say anything […]

I like LeGuin’s work in general, but this tale of freedom and repression is not her best work. Two groups of exiles coexist on a wild, uncharted planet, one composed of the descendants of prisoners, the other of political exiles, sent away for their disturbing pacifism. When some people in the city try to increase […]