Happy (2008) Halloween!
A revolution without capes and masks is a revolution not worth having! Happy Halloween to all my heathen, pagan and ghostly amigos! Here’s hoping you don’t wake esta noche only to find a bloody screaming man under your bed.
PERHAPS LUIS BUNUEL’S MASTERPIECE, Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones) isn’t the typical stuff of Halloween, but for today I’m going back to it for this snippet above as it sets the tone perfectly. Ghosts, blood, surrealism…. Ah, how I do love the surrealists. Somehow, their visions always calm me. Blame it on this crazy culture that tries to hide behind a sane face, too hard, and without success.
On that angle, poverty and hunger (themes that the celebrated Mexican filmmaker based this film on) are very real horrors for many people, even today, even right now this moment. But hey. We’ll come back to that tomorrow. Because I don’t want to take away any of our glee as we stuff our faces with candy galore, by all means! After all, a revolution without candycorn and facepaint is a revolution not worth having! BOO! Happy Halloween!
¡Dios mio! That was fricken creepy.
I never know when you’re being sarcastic, amigo, but si, a revolution that loses sight of life’s simple joys is no revolution at all.
Makes me think of Emma Goldman – “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.”
Or Raoul Vaneigem – “People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.”
Trick or treat, mo’fo!
i think i’m always being sarcastic to a degree. doesnt mean i’m not being sincere too!
yes, i was referencing emma goldman. and i love the vaneigem quote! wow, great stuff. “without understanding what is subversive about love.” thats beautiful and reminds me of one of my favorite che quotes.
BOO! WOOHOO!
Happy Halloween! Ended up seeing “Diary of the Dead” and “The Strangers” last night. Nothing like a zombie flick and a movie making all sorts of Manson Family references to get one in the mood!
happy halloween! wow, that is getting in the mood!