Thoroughly enjoying re-reading Jim Thompson currently. No one is innocent, everyone is implicated. Some people are stronger and they maintain their position by oppressing, controlling and duping the weak. However everyone's luck runs out eventually as they lose their touch, looks, grip. Everyone dies. Somehow this is very enjoyable.
with a wry smile on his face.
ReplyDeleteyet somehow he and Stanley Kubrick wrote Paths of Glory, hearts on sleeves - and humble viewer cries like a baby each and every time.