Mungui is clearly a major new director
That's exiting. Maybe he'll be offered the next Superman movie. Singer clearly flubbed the last one.
I haven't seen the movie, but I heard an excellent interview with the director on Fresh Air. Gross asked about the nature of the friendship, and he replied that in a repressive society, people are motivated by solidarity. (He also makes clear that (a) he doesn't think of it as "an abortion movie," and (b) his views on abortion might not be regarded as straightforwardly pro-choice in this country.) The interview was a couple of weeks ago, I believe.
You heard an excellent interview conducted by Ms Gross? I scoff.
You heard an excellent interview conducted by Ms Gross? I scoff.
Do 4 and 5 intend to imply that I only scoff, or that JP scoffs, or what? Because I do more than just scoff. Sometimes I merely disapprove, or if I'm feeling especially enervated disapprobate, while at other times I rant.
Ben scoffs without having a valid reason.
Do you rant, Ben? I can't say I remember a comment of yours that I would have characterized as a rant.
On a scale of A to E, I am an escoffier.
3: There were two parties to the interview, and the director was thoughtful, and either unwilling to be guided or not sufficiently comfortable with English to always realize where he was being guided.
I saw a documentary on abortion in Romania under Ceaucescu a few years ago. It was extremely unpleasant throughout, and outright horrifying in places. Probably worse because it was on the big screen (film festival).
I have successfully blanked out the title, and IMDB is not helping me. I would recommend it only for historical and political understanding -- it would probably be great for a college class or a film discussion group.
So I'm not terribly eager to see 4 Months.
It sounds like another movie who makes the doctor performing the abortion to be a bad person.
It really pisses me off how often this theme gets displayed.
Poor women. Evil doctor. There are a lot better ways to earn a living than providing abortion services.
6:When stras called me a roue, at first I wondered how I could be compared to a French cooking base. After research, I found the definition "dissipated lecher." I was quite pleased.
"Enervated disapprobate" is like Proust's madeleine, albeit with an unfortunate mispelling.
16, you were thinking of "roux"
What's a "disapprobate"?
17:disapprobate:"Boschesque crustaceans of his hermetic imagination to caress the tentacular algae of his subaqueous and electrified impudicity or the nacreous and colubrine doves of a psychosomatic idealism to circle in simmering syndromes the facades of a palladian narcissism." ...Edmund Wilson
It sounds like another movie who makes the doctor performing the abortion to be a bad person.
I haven't seen the movie, but from the director's description of abortions during that time, the abortionist is not a doctor, and he doesn't complete the abortion. The director made it sound like a brutal, iffy procedure performed by people who claimed skills that they did not have.
"disapprobate" as used in a sentence, with helpful context:
But we should not think that the question of whether or not he existed is irrelevant; we must remember that his persona as a pseudo-historical figure, and as the Cynfardd par excellence, remained very important to the Welsh for over a thousand years. As the influence of Christian orthodoxy and its religious xenophobia became more significant in Welsh culture, the kinds of bardic practices I have described above would have been declared disfavored and disapprobate, and their practitioners would have been forced to euhemerize their sources, or conform more rigidly to the demands of the Christian tradition. Compare Cormac's note of Patrick's banishment of the imbas forosna and declaration that "none who shall do that shall belong to heaven or earth, for it is a denial of baptism." [Stokes 1893: 157]