tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post934370962700197240..comments2024-03-28T08:36:57.190+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: FilmYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-10343642008768813882016-05-20T20:49:02.692+01:002016-05-20T20:49:02.692+01:00I don't think my generation will forget, and i...I don't think my generation will forget, and it's important for future generations to be made aware.Coppa's girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16459503600694841117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-18142193885797611122016-05-20T20:46:58.377+01:002016-05-20T20:46:58.377+01:00Well, I certainly wouldn't YP - see my reply t...Well, I certainly wouldn't YP - see my reply to your comment above ! I'm not a cinema goer - not that we have one within miles anyway.Coppa's girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16459503600694841117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-73335547968074263702016-05-20T20:41:21.802+01:002016-05-20T20:41:21.802+01:00Is that what they do?
Haven't been to the cin...Is that what they do? <br />Haven't been to the cinema since the local "Fleapit" closed it's doors in 1973 ! The last film we saw on the big screen was "The Poesedin (sorry about the spelling!) Adventure", which is possibly why we've never been again !Coppa's girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16459503600694841117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-49979986362625859582016-05-20T16:41:21.260+01:002016-05-20T16:41:21.260+01:00It's your last sentence that gets my head nodd...It's your last sentence that gets my head nodding Steve.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-10482951058304030402016-05-20T16:26:52.679+01:002016-05-20T16:26:52.679+01:00I'm sure it was a wonderful movie but I'm ...I'm sure it was a wonderful movie but I'm just not sure I could do it. Maybe I could. It's certainly important to remind ourselves of these truths.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-72637061981027691992016-05-20T15:08:36.409+01:002016-05-20T15:08:36.409+01:00So you wouldn't watch "Saving Private Rya...So you wouldn't watch "Saving Private Ryan" or "Apocalypse Now" or "The Killing Fields" or "Schindler's List" or "Pearl Harbor" or "The Diary of Anne Frank" etc. etc.? What's left? "My Little Pony - The Movie"?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-76075505816000097422016-05-20T15:04:27.018+01:002016-05-20T15:04:27.018+01:00That's true but ironically it might be argued ...That's true but ironically it might be argued that it was tolerance that allowed the Nazis to rise to power. Remember that poem? "First they came for the socialists" by Martin Niemöller.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-65334454200676520742016-05-20T11:17:37.102+01:002016-05-20T11:17:37.102+01:00A kindred voyeur. Some of us have seen life and ha...A kindred voyeur. Some of us have seen life and have no wish to see horror on a doodad or cinema screen.ADRIANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07113961163396562781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-51137950250415637842016-05-20T11:13:17.480+01:002016-05-20T11:13:17.480+01:00I thought it was the title of a porn movie. It sho...I thought it was the title of a porn movie. It should Submerged in the Minge would get some hits on YouTube.ADRIANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07113961163396562781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-18424185302168720292016-05-20T11:06:30.747+01:002016-05-20T11:06:30.747+01:00But intolerance is one of the basic things that le...But intolerance is one of the basic things that leads to man's inhumanity to man.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-54721827188966257302016-05-20T10:59:56.234+01:002016-05-20T10:59:56.234+01:00Adrian would know that that remark was just a joke...Adrian would know that that remark was just a joke.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-64149423519684417142016-05-20T10:59:00.360+01:002016-05-20T10:59:00.360+01:00Tolerance isn't necessarily one of the hallmar...Tolerance isn't necessarily one of the hallmarks of wisdom. Many film companies are all about profit and they treat the public like cash cows.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-49828796935827801922016-05-20T10:54:50.146+01:002016-05-20T10:54:50.146+01:00"One of the most profound pieces of film-maki..."One of the most profound pieces of film-making I have ever seen". I agree Ian and am confused about the blinkers that some others are happy to don when the subject matter is uncomfortable or disturbing.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-56090179089444016432016-05-20T10:52:28.963+01:002016-05-20T10:52:28.963+01:00Periscope up!Periscope up!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-69050617669472825562016-05-20T10:49:45.978+01:002016-05-20T10:49:45.978+01:00Then what? A small submarine in The Minch with tor...Then what? A small submarine in The Minch with torpedoes loaded.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-47499081801801283372016-05-20T10:32:38.789+01:002016-05-20T10:32:38.789+01:00YP that fact that you consider your 'highbrow&...YP that fact that you consider your 'highbrow' tastes in films to be above 'all that dross' that many of us (who may consider football 'all that dross') may (or may not) enjoy perhaps you should, having made your views clear, been a bit more tolerant of the views of some of your commenters.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-80709007533178009032016-05-20T10:26:28.253+01:002016-05-20T10:26:28.253+01:00I suppose YP that man's inhumanity to man has ...I suppose YP that man's inhumanity to man has to start with small steps: letting someone's tyres down (because you disagree with them or gratuitously?) is a start I suppose. Next you'll be booing a football team and then what? Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-76846827694780066082016-05-20T09:53:40.851+01:002016-05-20T09:53:40.851+01:00I watched Son of Saul on the small screen via my A...I watched Son of Saul on the small screen via my Amazon doodad and it it was a film that will stay with me for a very long time. As you say, the focus is entirely on Saul as we catch glimpses of the hell he is in and try to imagine how those people must have felt. It is one of the most profound pieces of film-making I have ever seen.Shooting Parrotshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503757845024102476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-9783919428259237242016-05-20T09:50:19.291+01:002016-05-20T09:50:19.291+01:00That is not the first time that such an argument h...That is not the first time that such an argument has been made about holocaust films but "Son of Saul" is not gratuitous. It is visionary and Auschwitz is just a blurry context. No I wouldn't travel to Saudi Arabia to see a beheading but I would travel to Fife to deflate the tyres on your camper van.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-50262569831571399522016-05-20T09:46:45.004+01:002016-05-20T09:46:45.004+01:00So many films that are made are garbage - sweet an...So many films that are made are garbage - sweet and soppy and predictable or following a horror or crime formula with big stars. "Son of Saul" rises high above that dross.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-32265497772981570292016-05-20T09:44:33.003+01:002016-05-20T09:44:33.003+01:00Unlike you and Graham and Lee and Coppa's Girl...Unlike you and Graham and Lee and Coppa's Girl and The Librarian, I do not turn away from the awkwardness and the horror. I think it is important to see it.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-33206375150386671512016-05-20T09:41:58.468+01:002016-05-20T09:41:58.468+01:00You are right about "man's inhumanity to ...You are right about "man's inhumanity to man" as William Shakespeare put it. We never learn. Look at Syria today. Look at East Timor yesterday and Vietnam and Cambodia and Burma and Northern Ireland and Kosovo and... the list goes on.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-83509103690111300982016-05-20T06:42:27.509+01:002016-05-20T06:42:27.509+01:00This sounds horrendous. We all know of and recogni...This sounds horrendous. We all know of and recognise the inhumanity that man was and still is capable of. To use it for entertainment is almost as bad as the acts portrayed. The producers will argue that such films are made to show our inhumanity. Porn shows folk bonking but few would argue it's desirable....Well maybe just a bit of porn....every now and again.<br />Would you travel to Saudi Arabia to watch the live theatre that is beheading, amputation and stoning? Going to see such horror acted on film is much the same so I wouldn't contemplate doing either.ADRIANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07113961163396562781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-11213924230190660062016-05-20T06:30:35.037+01:002016-05-20T06:30:35.037+01:00Let me join the club - I agree with Graham, too. T...Let me join the club - I agree with Graham, too. Thank you for the review, Neil. I've read about this film in the ZEIT and, although I am by no means disinterested in what has happened "thanks" to my people (not by choice, but by birth) in the past, I already knew then that I was not going to watch it.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-38283666630364810142016-05-20T04:56:13.683+01:002016-05-20T04:56:13.683+01:00I agree with Graham. I just can't bear to watc...I agree with Graham. I just can't bear to watch that sort of film. It's heartbreaking what humans are capable of. Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12512800812290518552noreply@blogger.com