Well taking some time off writing, I go sit down for hours and write letters to the media, cif blog, this blog, morning star column, I have even been writing bits of the General Election manifesto (they will go through many other hands even if its October), tempted to write a book on power/strategy (Foucault/Spinoza/Bahktin/whose the autonomist guy at the University of East London he is good/Tao/Cybernetics/Laurence Stern)....god I must go and do something else, well I have today.
And have taken a day or two away from my loved ones...all to stain the outside of the house, sounds faintly obscene...but its made of wood (my mobile home I mean) so I have to stain it every five years or so or else it will fall down.
Can I resist typing, no I can't but most of this I am going to lift from wiki, it does fuck me off articles in newspapers suggesting wiki is unreliable, its open source checked by many hands to make it bug free (well bug lowe) and every lie is commented upon and now wiki is super referenced....newspapers lets think Times is true, wiki is a lie....if the CIA wrote half of the Times would we ever find out, there are probably gulags in Hampshire, what can we learn from newspapers.
Any way been watching horror films, in between staining in the hot sun, The Shining...mother fucking good, although its built on 'an indian burial ground' must have been an old line in 1980, who would marry and go live with Jack Nicholson in an isolated hotel for 5 months in the depth of winter.
And the real life horror from Nick Broomfield 'Ghosts'.
Out now on DVD, an essential. The site for the film is here.
Here is the wiki take, tells no lies:
Ghosts (2006 film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Ghosts
DVD cover
Directed by Nick Broomfield
Produced by Nick Broomfield
Jez Lewis
Written by Nick Broomfield
Jez Lewis
Starring Ai Qin Lin
Zhe Wei
Music by Harry Escott
Molly Nyman
Cinematography Mark Wolf
Editing by Peter Christelis
Distributed by Beyond Films
Release date(s) Flag of Spain September 21, 2006
Flag of the United Kingdom October 25, 2006
Flag of the United States January 2007
Running time 96 mins.
Country United Kingdom
Language Mandarin, English
Official website
All Movie Guide profile
IMDb profile
Ghosts (鬼佬) is a 2006 drama film directed by Nick Broomfield, based on the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster.
Contents
[hide]
* 1 Synopsis
* 2 Cast
* 3 Title
* 4 External links
[edit] Synopsis
The film tells the story of Ai Qin, a Chinese immigrant to the UK. It follows her from China to the UK where she gets a job in a food packing factory. It reveals that the UK's food industry is heavily dependent on underpaid, expolititive, migrant labour. Eventually she starts work cockle-picking at Morecambe Bay. The film begins and ends with the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, in which 23 illegal workers lost their lives while cockle-picking.
[edit] Cast
* Ai Qin Lin as Ai Quin
* Zhan Yu as Mr. Lin
* Zhe Wei as Xiao Li
* Man Qin Wei as Chiao
* Yong Aing Zhai
* Devi Zhu
* Shaun Gallagher as Robert
[edit] Title
The title of the film stems from the literal translation of 鬼佬 (Gwailo), meaning ghost, used by Chinese people to describe Caucasian people.
'Globalisation of the wrong kind exploits all but a minority' adds Dr Wall.
2 comments:
very funny blog, you should write more like this.
The problem with Wikipedia is that is pretends to an old fashioned objectivity of the Encyclopedia Britannica, whilst manipulable by powerful interest groups (CIA, the Kremlin, the Vatican or whoever) who have the time and resources to spin and misinform in quite subtle ways. If you read The Times, you know publishes and writes it and their bias and you know its particular standards and can allow for that. Not so with Wikipedia, which illustrates the limitations of the idea that open source and wikis are some kind of great political leveller, pointer towards some great new Third Way or reinvention of the socialist project etc etc. Frankly, strikes as it's a sort of Social Credit for the 21st century, a wacko idea taken seriously by too many otherwise serious and intelligent people, who *want* to discover something new.
And as for the notion that the cut-and-thrust of continuous re-editing by many different people with different viewpoints will sort of cancel each other out and produce an "objective" truth is frankly archaic and basically rather bourgeois - OK for John Stuart Mill I guess (see On Liberty), but for a 21st century ecosocialist, hmmm...
Post a Comment