I went to a “Balcan Evening” at a friend’s place. He’s Croatian and was showing two Slovenian movies. Unfortunately I was late, but I still got to see the second movie, and talk with the guests about Zatôichi (see 2004-02-15 Movies), other Takeshi Kitano movies, the violence in movies such as Kill Bill, comparing these movies to other Samurai movies such as The Last Samurai, Twilight Samurai (see 2004-01-10 Movies, recommended!), The Seven Samurai (recommended!), and Samurai Fantasy (intellectually interesting).
We also talked about Gori Vatra (IMDB:0347105, which I still have to see) bureaucracy under communist rule, the strength of communism in Italy, the image of Yugoslavians, the importance of everyday policy on a local level for national elections in America, Germany, and Sweden, etc.
It was a great evening. Since I also gave two of the guests the URL to my site, let me thank them here and now for the nice evening. 😄
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