tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post4831969471108201637..comments2023-06-28T22:58:28.247+10:00Comments on Sixth In Line: Obligation versus love in Samson and DelilahElisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-86821409244483324192009-10-25T15:34:47.903+11:002009-10-25T15:34:47.903+11:00Thanks for this, Annodyne. I've started to re...Thanks for this, Annodyne. I've started to read Lucy Tartan's blog. Great stuff, but now I'm 'scared', it's highly likely I know her. How'd that be? <br />I rather like this strange anonymity of blog life. <br />Now that I realise more fully the extent to which some people travel under pseudonyms in blogdom, our covers might get blown. Mine's not much of a cover though. <br />It's also possible that Lucy Tartan exists under that name, in which case I do not know her.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-64582830578859272392009-10-25T15:05:13.952+11:002009-10-25T15:05:13.952+11:00I have seen the classic 'Ten Canoes' film...I have seen the classic 'Ten Canoes' film, which at first seems sad, but is actually aboriginal humour and is hilarious on second viewing. <br />'Latrobe English Dept' ? you need to swing by our beloved Lucy Tartan the time-management genius at <a href="http://allordinary2.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Sorrow At Sills Bend</a> and end up becoming a fan of Baz The Wonder CatAnn ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-44091874100418094092009-09-21T18:55:31.440+10:002009-09-21T18:55:31.440+10:00Thanks Jim. I loved the article. I had not heard...Thanks Jim. I loved the article. I had not heard the term 'mumblecore'. It seems very apt.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-62154934766482890282009-09-21T13:43:03.004+10:002009-09-21T13:43:03.004+10:00I found a few 'behind the scenes' clips on...I found a few 'behind the scenes' clips online as well as the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N69RgtW6S8o&NR=1" rel="nofollow">trailer</a> which I watched a couple of times to get a feel for the piece.<br /><br />Even from the trailer the barrenness of the place is right in your face but there must be places like this the world over; small town America jumps to mind (especially the South) and even wee villages up the north of Scotland where there's nothing to do, no jobs, no future and no way out.<br /><br />My take on the beating was that it would be punishment for not being dutiful. The fact that the community might be seen to have a responsibility towards the old woman would be irrelevant; the girl carried <i>prime</i> responsibility and so was solely accountable for the death – a scapegoat if you will.<br /><br />As for the two kids not talking much, well some cultures are more prone to laconicity than others, North American Indians for one, but then most teenagers go through a phase where they don't know how to express what they think and feel so it's easier to say next to nothing. There are a whole slew of films appearing that are being classes as 'mumblecore' because the teenage protagonists express themselves so awkwardly and so rarely. You might find this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/movies/19lim.html" rel="nofollow">article</a> of some interest. If you lay your hands of a copy of <i>Quiet City</i>, do – I thought it was beautiful.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com