In a meeting my son calls awesome, we talked about what he called his antiwar films, the violence inherent in humanity, and why society is at odds with itself.
I will never forgive Eastwood for his unhinged "talk" with the empty chair at the RNC that was meant to mock Obama. Society is at odds with itself because of the patriarchal image of masculinity that Eastwood helped to make popular via Hollywood and that all these weekend warriors kidnapping people are imitating. Eastwood was blessed with a pretty face, but his politics are in the toilet. No thanks.
Thank you for reading and taking the time to comment, D. P. Your're right, that empty chair bit at the RNC wasn't Eastwood's best moment. But from my conversation with him, I find it hard to believe he'd condone or support the ICE tactics of masked agents grabbing folks off the street without due process. In our conversation, he said plainly, that he's not "against a criminal's right to justice, to a defense." And I suspect that would mean for undocumented people on the streets of L.A. or in any American city too. As for Donald Trump being in the White House, in 2020 he told the WSJ clearly that “The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there.” Yes, as a filmmaker, his subject--like the novelist Cormac McCarthy's--is violence, what it does to the human soul, and the possibility of redemption. Those are themes as old as humanity itself, and ones I can, sadly, relate to.
I will never forgive Eastwood for his unhinged "talk" with the empty chair at the RNC that was meant to mock Obama. Society is at odds with itself because of the patriarchal image of masculinity that Eastwood helped to make popular via Hollywood and that all these weekend warriors kidnapping people are imitating. Eastwood was blessed with a pretty face, but his politics are in the toilet. No thanks.
Thank you for reading and taking the time to comment, D. P. Your're right, that empty chair bit at the RNC wasn't Eastwood's best moment. But from my conversation with him, I find it hard to believe he'd condone or support the ICE tactics of masked agents grabbing folks off the street without due process. In our conversation, he said plainly, that he's not "against a criminal's right to justice, to a defense." And I suspect that would mean for undocumented people on the streets of L.A. or in any American city too. As for Donald Trump being in the White House, in 2020 he told the WSJ clearly that “The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there.” Yes, as a filmmaker, his subject--like the novelist Cormac McCarthy's--is violence, what it does to the human soul, and the possibility of redemption. Those are themes as old as humanity itself, and ones I can, sadly, relate to.