tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post7966724750169570974..comments2023-08-15T02:21:46.775-07:00Comments on Things and Also Stuff...: The Ox-Bow IncidentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post-73615018157143721782011-05-10T04:09:02.663-07:002011-05-10T04:09:02.663-07:00I reckon it shall stick vividly with me too.
And s...I reckon it shall stick vividly with me too.<br />And speaking of stuff like as what sticks with you... you mentioned 6th year religon-books; some of that great old shite seems subversive in and of itself, almost as if it were designed by some disillusioned clerical minion with the intention of to making an atheist out of anybody who reads it.<br /><br />Here is something I shall never forget from<br /> "Ready, Steady Grow" - a sex-education manual for Catholic teenagers:<br /><b>"Girls should dress modestly and behave in an appropriate manner so that boys are not tempted to abuse them".</b><br /><br />sheesh!Darren Maherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00035977231087809840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post-37299264107516889442011-05-09T14:48:24.458-07:002011-05-09T14:48:24.458-07:00I saw this in the Dublin Film Festival years ago w...I saw this in the Dublin Film Festival years ago when at school, and was later horrified to find it listed in a 6th year religion text book as a film to watch under the theme of "Justice". What a downer.<br /><br />I actually really liked it too - to the extent that I've only ever seen it once, probably when I was about 15, it's stuck with me vividly ever since. Possibly I was going through a phase of "discovering" classics, and came across this, and while the "stageyness" of it jarred, there's a solid core of huge drama associated with it (kind of like watching "A better tomorrow 2" expecting "Reservoir Dogs" but rather gaining an insight into how RD could come about or arise from that genre and a million other influences). To use a word fraught with meaning - it's a very "informative" film that way.<br /><br />Needs to be seen in a larger context too, in particular in the work of Henry Fonda. In the '40's and '50's he was making pictures like this (1943), and "12 Angry Men" (1957) and "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) which were making incredible statements about the nature of justice and fairness and equality, workers rights etc, that the establishment would readily have viewed as subversive, so in some senses it's amazing this kind of thing got made at all - probably wouldn't have without Fonda - even then he seems to have suffered during McCarthyism.....<br /><br />Flann.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post-73477396777154799742011-05-06T04:24:17.885-07:002011-05-06T04:24:17.885-07:00I'm sure it's well-known enough, but just ...I'm sure it's well-known enough, but just never showed up on me own personal radar... I've never seen 'Stand by Me' either.Darren Maherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00035977231087809840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post-68821661527912289172011-05-05T12:31:43.496-07:002011-05-05T12:31:43.496-07:00I actually know this movie. During his stand-up da...I actually know this movie. During his stand-up days Woody Allen used to talk about his "first marriage, or as it was known -- The Ox-Bow Incident."<br /><br />::Darwinhttp://darwin.ienoreply@blogger.com