The dirty dozen is complete!

From A to Z in 2012

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The violence which liberal critics found so offensive has survived intact. Aldrich sets up dispensable characters with no past and no future, as Marvin reprieves a bunch of death row prisoners, forges them into a tough fighting unit, and leads them on a suicide mission into Nazi France. Apart from the values of team spirit, cudgeled by Marvin into his dropout group, Aldrich appears to be against everything: anti-military, anti-Establishment, anti-women, anti-religion, anti-culture, anti-life. Overriding such nihilism is the super-crudity of Aldrich’s energy and his humour, sufficiently cynical to suggest that the whole thing is a game anyway, a spectacle that demands an audience. [ wikipedia ]

pict by [ dewil.ch ] (cc) JHB, December 11 2011

Daily Routine

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pict by [ dewil.ch ] (cc) Johannesburg, August 9 2011

el-Kadafi in South Africa 2011

«Kadafi in SA», Johannesburg, September 3 2011

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Despite U.N. Ban, Mandela Meets Qaddafi in Libya […] Mr. Mandela said that he had spent 27 years in jail rather than abandon his principles and that he felt the same way about his debt to Colonel Qaddafi for his support in the struggle against apartheid. «This man helped us at a time when we were all alone,» Mr. Mandela said. [ NYT, October 23 1997 ]

pict by [ dewil.ch ] (cc) JHB, September 3 2011