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There is a scene in Cries and Whispers by Bergman that when I saw it the first time I laughed because it was every cliché I had ever heard about a Bergman film. It was like satire only it was the real deal. Primal screaming and infinite angst, sort of. Likewise, when the main character in Moodysson's Lilya 4-ever gets kicked around in the beginning of the film I laughed in my seat because it was so extremely depressing, bordering to over-exaggeration.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.