Sunday, February 21, 2010
‘Herpes bomb’
More on Amy Bishop -- and, yes, it’s arguably ‘even stranger than the shooting itself.’
... Until now, I’ve thought no serious director, outside of television, would make a movie about this. But we’re now in twisted ‘Fargo’ territory here. It doesn't matter if she did or didn't booby-trap a science lab, mail a pipe bomb to a colleague or intentionally blast her brother. It's that she was always surrounded by all these allegedly smart people who assumed she was crazy enough to do these things -- and yet she was allowed, even encouraged, to flitter away to her next weird encounter, a societal problem pawned off to the next chumps in line. The Coen brothers are the too obvious choice to do this movie. Oliver Stone is the one. He has an amazing ability to convey a mixture of revulsion and empathy toward his anti-heroes. …
Additional updates and summaries here and here. …
More on Amy Bishop -- and, yes, it’s arguably ‘even stranger than the shooting itself.’
... Until now, I’ve thought no serious director, outside of television, would make a movie about this. But we’re now in twisted ‘Fargo’ territory here. It doesn't matter if she did or didn't booby-trap a science lab, mail a pipe bomb to a colleague or intentionally blast her brother. It's that she was always surrounded by all these allegedly smart people who assumed she was crazy enough to do these things -- and yet she was allowed, even encouraged, to flitter away to her next weird encounter, a societal problem pawned off to the next chumps in line. The Coen brothers are the too obvious choice to do this movie. Oliver Stone is the one. He has an amazing ability to convey a mixture of revulsion and empathy toward his anti-heroes. …
Additional updates and summaries here and here. …
