The Endless Newsreel Clips Of Nuclear Explosions

All Over The World Major Museums Have Bowed To The Influence Of Disney And Become Theme Parks In Their Own Right. The Past, Whether Renaissance Italy Or Ancient Egypt, Is Re-assimilated And Homogenized Into Its Most Digestible Form. Desperate For The New, But Disappointed With Anything But The Familiar, We Recolonize Past And Future. The Same Trend Can Be Seen In Personal Relationships, In The Way People Are Expected To Package Themselves, Their Emotions And Sexuality, In Attractive And Instantly Appealing Forms.

Surrender To A Logic More Powerful Than Reason.

Films, Like Memories, Seem To Re-shoot Themselves Over The Years, Reflecting Our Latest Needs And Obsessions. In Many Cases They Can Change Completely, And Reveal Unexpected Depths And Shallows. Will Four Weddings And A Funeral Be Seen One Day As A Vicious Social Satire? Could Jaws Become As Tearful And Sentimental As Bambi?

Everywhere You Look - Britain, The States, Western Europe - People Are Sealing Themselves Into Crime-free Enclaves. That's A Mistake - A Certain Level Of Crime Is Part Of The Necessary Roughage Of Life. Total Security Is A Disease Of Deprivation.

I Thought It Was A Wonderfully Conceptual Act Actually, To Fire A Replica Pistol At A Figurehead - The Guy Could Have Been Working For Andy Warhol!