Feels like when I woke up this morning. Ah well. At least I have conquered that part of me that takes a computer to bed. I am sleeping longer and better as a consequence, even if I am going to bed ludicrously early.
The movie Zero Dark Thirty was excellent. What I enjoyed about it most was that it was very easy to read the movie as a total indictment of how the Americans do foreign policy, and that it wasn’t just a rah rah torture porn American triumphalist spectacle. I know that is how some people parsed it, but Kathryn Bigelow has stated repeatedly that she finds war and violence repellent but it’s a fact of life. She once remarked that the dirty secret of war is that some men enjoy it, and knowing that makes some of her directorial choices seem a little more nuanced that a straight left wing parsing of the movie might suggest.
