To: LayoutGuru2
10,683 posted on
01/15/2004 5:43:36 PM PST by
hummingbird
("If it wasn't for the insomnia, I could have gotten some sleep!")
To: hummingbird
The book was terrifying not so much because it was about terror, but because it was about fearlessness, the fearlessness of the fanatical. The utter willingness to die. This struck a chord because people began to realize this was something impossible to fight in any conventional way. How can you harm people who are ready to die? How can you stop people whose nihilism immunizes them against any possible threat?
From:
http://www.bluecoupe.com/DVD/blacksunday.html
10,687 posted on
01/15/2004 5:51:25 PM PST by
hummingbird
("If it wasn't for the insomnia, I could have gotten some sleep!")
To: hummingbird
Thanks hummingbird! Actually I never did read the book or see the movie, didn't know that Frankenheimer directed it either. The Manchurian Candidate is on the top shelf of my DVD rack. After reading that review it looks like I might do some book/DVD shopping tomorrow.
10,834 posted on
01/15/2004 10:10:42 PM PST by
LayoutGuru2
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