Posted 6:39 AM by Gene

Sieg heil! (HEIL!) Sieg heil! (HEIL!) Sieg heil! (HEIL!) Sieg heil! (HEIL)!

Certainly it’s deeply, if promisingly, at odds with an American movie mainstream that has grown progressively more prudish about sex over the last three decades, while its representations of violence have grown more obscenely violent. Hollywood says let it bleed. Mr. Mitchell would rather we get off on life.

This reflex gag makes us remember how one night in one of our favorite novels George Babbitt was leafing through his daughter's books (Mencken, Edna St. Vincent Millay) and sighed of the "discontent with the old common ways." Of course he was as ossified in his ways as his daughter was, and it would have occured to neither they both had impervious prejudices. Our culture will never move anywhere so long as the ad-blurbists praise everything and feel they needn't improve, and especially when scribblers like Granola feel ci-ne-MA is best when it's TRANSGRESSIVE; more to the point, we won't get anywhere so long as both ossified political sides feel the problem in our "entertainments' is sex OR violence, but not both. PINCH could have written this last belch. It matters not that hardly anyone will see this masterwork; every time these hacks eruct they do damage.

Nor will we comment on how idiotic it seems the hacks want to be right-on-with-it-now when the last few days have shown how we've paid for it.

And no, I do not apologize for the sieg heils. There's this notion people can't use Nazi tropes to criticize others, and often enough this is true; but this is not true with our ein-volk-ein-Reich-ein-Führer state media, or their brain spasms.