The Last Supper, 1995

The Last Supper, 1995
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Everybody in The Last Supper disapproves of that sentiment, and if anybody is going to die, it will indeed have to be Voltaire [Roger Ebert] (et alors? c'est la faute à voltaire? just kidding). Their names? Jude, Marc, Luke, Paulie, and Pete. Get it?Last Supper [fdpedro] (gotcha). And the list can go on...

I've just watched it on TV, not knowing anything previously, just attracted by the generic showing Cameron Diaz and Jason Alexander in the cast.  I was thinking at a romantic comedy or something of that kind. Well, what followed was totally unexpected. A black comedy built with a superbly perverse take it easy approach, while putting bluntly in front of us the tableau of who we really are. Traditionalists or progressives, pro-life or pro-choice, religious or atheists, whatever, we are the same animal, knowing only the extremes, getting nuts of any nuances, believing only in our own righteousness, free to do anything it takes in the name of our righteousness. And after all, a cultural war is a funny name masking the reality of the war: and in a war nobody's innocent. Any direction you take you'll find a bunch of lunatics. Anthony Loyd says that one can die only two ways, fighting the good cause for the wrong reason, or fighting the wrong cause for the good reason. Up2u.

The Last Supper, 1995
(video by Erin Jung)

a Swiftian attempt to slap us all in the face [Roger Ebert]



(Filmofilia)