EuroTrash
By Flipaisimo on Wednesday, May 21 2008, 18:35 - Permalink
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Truthfully, I don’t understand how this could have happened in such a town where the mayor, Flavio Tosi, is a man well known to promote completely opposite values. Take, for example, his actions in 2007, when he looked for some luxury apartments with an air-conditioned rubbish dump for the town’s gypsies, claiming that “they were disturbing the beauty of the historical centre”.
Unfortunately, the film industry is largely to blame for this. Not for the existence of such undesirable politicians, but for the fact that there still remains a large group of young people who haven’t understood the brutality of the Holocaust. Even though films which try to display the most extreme sides of the topic, like “Schindler’s List” (1993) or “The Pianist” (2002), are in abundance, they do it from a too historical perspective and not from a more intimate and personal point of view.
In my opinion, films that can help us to best understand the idiocy of Nazism are films like American History X (1998). In this scene, Edward Norton does it really well, he successfully leaves his own skin behind, and he could only convince complete idiots:
On the 9th of May it was the day of general European masturbation (or Europe Day, as it’s also known). As Europeans we all congratulated ourselves for being so happy and for getting through 50 years without warring. This is really good, but I’m proposing to celebrate Euro Trash Day, the following day, so that after patting ourselves on the back we can start to look for a solution to these problems that, on days like the day when Nicola Tommasoli died, turn our society into a rubbish dump.
Translation: Sarah Marshall
Unfortunately, the film industry is largely to blame for this. Not for the existence of such undesirable politicians, but for the fact that there still remains a large group of young people who haven’t understood the brutality of the Holocaust. Even though films which try to display the most extreme sides of the topic, like “Schindler’s List” (1993) or “The Pianist” (2002), are in abundance, they do it from a too historical perspective and not from a more intimate and personal point of view.
In my opinion, films that can help us to best understand the idiocy of Nazism are films like American History X (1998). In this scene, Edward Norton does it really well, he successfully leaves his own skin behind, and he could only convince complete idiots:
On the 9th of May it was the day of general European masturbation (or Europe Day, as it’s also known). As Europeans we all congratulated ourselves for being so happy and for getting through 50 years without warring. This is really good, but I’m proposing to celebrate Euro Trash Day, the following day, so that after patting ourselves on the back we can start to look for a solution to these problems that, on days like the day when Nicola Tommasoli died, turn our society into a rubbish dump.
Translation: Sarah Marshall
Flipaisimo
Nabeelah
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