On the bedside table:
Scooter Libby Meets The Exterminating Angel
I was just watching the news...
Regarding the Scooter Libby trial:
This has been fun to watch. The entire court proceeding reminds me of a movie called “The Exterminating Angel” directed by the great Luis Bunuel. It’s a surrealistic masterpiece that satirizes the upper class. In it, a group of upper-crust bourgeois socialite types are trapped in a house after a dinner party. Some type of mysterious force does not allow them to leave. After days of this their social masks fall down, revealing selfishness, deception and general rottenness. Soon various confessions strain their friendships and a 'bad smell' permeates all. Here Bunuel masterfully leads us to the conclusion that these people stink, literally and figuratively. Ultimately they survive, through the sacrifice of some lambs, and in the end, everything and everybody returns to the same initial position and they leave the place.
That just about nails the Libby fiasco don’t you think?
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