Europe After Rain And The Unmaking Of France
I remember, as a child, watching somber documentaries of war. Black and white and later early color hashes - the blurring images of adult men and death machines.
Maps
Arrows
Bold Plans
Waves of fighters
And sometimes a miracle. I remember seeing a figure... was it Christ? The Holy Mother Mary? Whole and intact in the corner of a Shattered church on a broken street in a burned to the ground town.
Standing clean and untouched like a little miracle in the ashes.
A seemingly arbitrarily supernatural event next to the missing walls.
The Haunting poetic voice of Laurence Olivier.
Tonight Paris is depressed and Burning. A city engulfed in hate and pain.
And yet, here too, a sign for our times.
NB: Thanks to PentWhistle the Clown for the pic.
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Willard: Soldier, do you know who's in command here?
The Roach: Yeah.
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
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