Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Netflix Queue
1. To End All Wars
2. House of Flying Daggers
3. Kissing Jessica Stein
4. All the Real Girls
5. Roger Dodger
6. Richard III (Sir Laurence Olivier, I've already seen the Sir Ian McKellen film)
7. Rabbit-Proof Fence
8. Blindspot: Hitler's Secretary
9. Downfall
10. Triumph of the Will

Yes, Triumph of the Will is Leni Riefenstahl's famous/infamous Nazi propaganda film. In a similar vein, I read Mein Kampf when I was in ninth grade. I was not a Nazi sympathizer then and I am not a Nazi sympathizer now. I felt it was important to read the book then, and to watch the film now, on the theory that the best way to prevent history from repeating itself is to understand how such terrible events came to pass in the first place.

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