I was looking for good pictures to draw, when something from the Watchmen opening montage niggled at the back of my mind. Now Watchmen is at best an incomplete work to me, what could have been a truly insightful film was (mostly) turned into a no-brainer. But despite the horrible sense of a lost opportunity, the opening scene had at least a glimmer of something bigger than an action movie:
(Music: Bob Dylan's Times they Are A-Changing. I encourage you to take some time to absorb the lyrics.)
The short scene of a girl placing a flower into a rifle barrel (3:50)was inspired by a real event, the Kent State Shootings. So this is the darker, uglier side of American history - not that you didn't know that there was one, but then again you probably didn't know just how dark it really was. Another famous picture, taken in the October 1967 peace march at the Pentagon:
Just goes to show how high the price of freedom is. Are we really ready to foot the bill?
December 12th
Quote of the Week
- "This house has been far out at sea all night, |The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, |Winds stampeding the fields under the window |Floundering black astride and blinding wet |Till day rose; then under an orange sky |The hills had new places, and wind wielded |Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, |Flexing like the lens of a mad eye." - Ted Hughes, Wind
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Times They Are A-Changing
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