Documentary
Sep. 4th, 2003 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
Why on earth am I posting at this early hour? Because Mother's gone off to train for some Board of Elections work that she's going to be doing on elections day, and I couldn't possibly miss a chance to sneak online and figure out exactly how to download the last three Prince of Tennis manga from mangacity.net. (Except it really does seem that I need IRC for that. -_-)
I watched a fantastic documentary last night on PBS. It's impossible to explain exactly why it was so wonderful because I'm not sure myself. I just started watching and found myself unable to change the channel. Even more telling, my parents sat down in the middle and became completely absorbed to the point of forgetting to watch the weeknight drama on KTV. This normally is impossible. Father refuses to miss his drama for anything, unless it's a James Bond movie.
The documentary was called "None Without Sin", concerning Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, and the Communist witchhunt in Hollywood during the 1950s. HUAC hearings, stool pigeons, blacklisting, all that good stuff. I'm not normally interested by this kind of thing, nor do I particularly enjoy documentaries, but the program was fascinating. It was the best kind of historical analysis, when the interpretation of events is subtle yet compelling enough to make you feel like you've really understood something about the era. Also, I didn't know that The Crucible was a metaphor for the HUAC hearings or that Kazan made On the Waterfront after he testified and named names. I'll never see that movie in the same light again.
I should watch PBS more often, if I can catch these kinds of programs on it. Of course, once college starts, I'll be knee-deep in work and, for all practical purposes, quarantined from TV. >_< Ah well, I'll still have my manga.
...Tari
Why on earth am I posting at this early hour? Because Mother's gone off to train for some Board of Elections work that she's going to be doing on elections day, and I couldn't possibly miss a chance to sneak online and figure out exactly how to download the last three Prince of Tennis manga from mangacity.net. (Except it really does seem that I need IRC for that. -_-)
I watched a fantastic documentary last night on PBS. It's impossible to explain exactly why it was so wonderful because I'm not sure myself. I just started watching and found myself unable to change the channel. Even more telling, my parents sat down in the middle and became completely absorbed to the point of forgetting to watch the weeknight drama on KTV. This normally is impossible. Father refuses to miss his drama for anything, unless it's a James Bond movie.
The documentary was called "None Without Sin", concerning Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, and the Communist witchhunt in Hollywood during the 1950s. HUAC hearings, stool pigeons, blacklisting, all that good stuff. I'm not normally interested by this kind of thing, nor do I particularly enjoy documentaries, but the program was fascinating. It was the best kind of historical analysis, when the interpretation of events is subtle yet compelling enough to make you feel like you've really understood something about the era. Also, I didn't know that The Crucible was a metaphor for the HUAC hearings or that Kazan made On the Waterfront after he testified and named names. I'll never see that movie in the same light again.
I should watch PBS more often, if I can catch these kinds of programs on it. Of course, once college starts, I'll be knee-deep in work and, for all practical purposes, quarantined from TV. >_< Ah well, I'll still have my manga.
...Tari
