Showing posts with label In Bruges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label In Bruges. Show all posts

Friday, April 16, 2010

It's like a Fairytale

Cláudia recommended the film "In Bruges", which is wonderful. If Damon Runyon characters were Irish hitmen in 21st Century Bruges...
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What's the opposite of an old man who may or may not be a dybbuk? I'm just reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez stories, one of them is "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". This old man, who may or may not be an angel, appears in time of flood rather than in a snowstorm and makes a more peaceful exit than Fyvush Finkel's character. But the feel is the same, extraordinary things happen, we pretend to understand them - or admit that we don't.