Monday, September 1, 2003

Watched Bridge on the River Kwai Yet Again



"You make me sick with your heroics. There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L-pills -- they go well together, don't they? And with you it's just one thing or the other: destroy a bridge or destroy yourself. This is just a game, this war! You and Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind, crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman... how to die by the rules... when the only important thing is how to live like a human being."--Major Shears.



(Yes, Nicholson is pretty much a treasonous collaborator, but it's a classic film on the nihilism of war regardless.)