You probably think this film is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this film is about you
Don’t you don’t you
You’re so vain

People who makes such comparisons have no idea how offensive they are to Holocaust survivors and their relatives, whether Jewish or not.

Trivialisation is as bad as denial.

Baxxter, trust you to find an exception. I must apologise because I told an untruth; I saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

wow – limited range of movies you’ve got there

Stanley Kubrick, Roman Pulanski, and Sterphen Spielberg have portrayed some of the violence and horrors of the 20th century–and there are so many others to the present day on our doorsteps, throughout Africa and in Syria, and continuing in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

I watch those films and the horrors of contemporary warfare and violence in empathy to the victims and in commitment to reason and justice against the forces of violence that surround us. Because of the pain and suffering, my wife, too, like you, often chooses to avoid these films.

However, similarly, I have always refused films of the horror genre–the invention of violence as entertainment seems such a sacrilege against the reality of genuine human suffering, where empathy is justified–and perhaps where we can find a way to relieve actual violence.

But there is something intrinsically deeply disturbing about Franco Debono’s comments after viewing “The Pianist”, who seems to observe objective violence in the world, but then seems to fail to see such violence objectively, and while he seems to view it only in terms of self-perceptions.

Alarm bells should be ringing. If not for so-called journalists, I would hope the electorate would be intelligent enough to discern. But how much of the electorate is emotive-based rather than rational and analytical?

Where are the analytical journalists? Or do “journalists” in Malta simply serve their political masters?

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