Most fascinating is that I’ve not seen the film. Yet the reactions I see from folks seem to be the most visceral and strong that I can recall about any film. This causes me to ask, what does this reaction say about humankind? Why does a species feel so strongly in certain specific ways about this film?

I’m intrigued to find out the non-summative whole that is this film. It’s place in our time. It’s relevance to things happening right now. I’m curious and hope to discover much as I continue to study this whole-ality that is the film and the resonance of it in humankind in real space and time.

It seems to generally get the “best-worst” film ever rating from everyone.

I heard one girl say something to the effect that she is now afraid that Javier Bardem is going to kill her. Not seriously of course but she freely acknowledges that her poor mind is now helpless but to be terrfied of a thing it formerly wasn’t.

I’m also fascinated by the method of killing Bardem’s character chooses. I find a sobering irony in the fact that cattle are killed the same way every day. That may sound a little absurdist and
if cows could speak and think abstractly, how would they view the same entitlement “we” have on their lives that Anton has on those he kills?

If killing or taking life is ok? Is it ok across the board with every living thing? Or if one is going to die anyway, what’s the worry? Why do humans cling to life so tenaciously? Why is it ok to kill one way but not another? Why is it ok for one living thing to die brutally and senselessly but not ok for another to die that way? Why is it that death is only ok if it happens in your sleep or in a blaze of glory? I don’t know, but it sure will be fun (i hope grin/blush) to find out.