Posts Tagged With ‘justice’

Blade Runner ~ do androids weep electric tears?

Tears in Rain ~ Roy Batty

Blade Runner is among my favourite films. In a veritable symphony of cinematic elements — cinematography, script, production design, soundtrack, direction, acting — it doesn’t miss a note. The film touches on all the major themes of the human condition: love, death, good and evil, redemption, justice, ethics, greed, passion. […]

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To Kill a Mockingbird: the courage of Atticus Finch

To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Courtroom Verdict

It’s the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and I’ve got the film paused, just after the scene in which the verdict is handed down. Guilty. Both the film and the book resonate very deeply with me, in all the themes they touch […]

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