Boston's Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul
Now THIS is a movie to go see! From the disclaimer at the end of the New York Times review of Clint Eastwood's film Mystic River:
"Mystic River" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has profanity, abundant violence and existential despair.
Existential despair!
No, but really, my compatriot brdgt (not her real name) has posted the review here, and I think you will agree it's well reviewed.
The book, by Dennis Lehane, was superb. Lehane captured the essence of working-class Massachusetts-- insular, fiercely loyal, fucked-up like a family, real-- better than any other author I've read, and early reports from the film (which was shot in Boston) say that Eastwood captured this on screen.
I can't wait! Existential despair, Boston style! And just in time for the Red Sox nation's own annual rite of existential despair, ashes-and-sackcloth wearing, unconsidered recriminations, and drunken, heartbreaking promises that next year, next yeah, Mackie, is gonna be the yeah.
Which it is.
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And just in time for the Red
And just in time for the Red Sox nation's own annual rite of existential despair, ashes-and-sackcloth wearing, unconsidered recriminations, and drunken, heartbreaking promises that next year, next yeah, Mackie, is gonna be the yeah..
this is not existential despair....although perhaps it is a 'sickness unto death!' look it up on amazon if you're uninformed!
TAM,
TAM,
I dunno... there's something pretty Puritanical about the whole Red Sox thing.
Puritans were all about "sinners in the hands of an angry god," "we are as spiders on a thread, held over the fires of Hell," dying-a-death-every-day as part of their worship, xenophobic, intolerant of failure, "we are all wretched before God" and all that.
I too would ascribe the Red Sox nation's paroxysms to Kierkegaardian angst, and it's kind of like that. But given the history of New England, I'm inclined to go with the Puritans "we're all damned, damned, damned" thing.
Now the CUBBIES... that's a different, Sysiphean story right there.