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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Blood Meridian in Books

Jul 27, 2017  
Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy | 2010 | Fiction & Poetry
3
3.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Grim , brutal and tasteless
I think the gratuitous and horrific descriptions of violence is insulting to those nations who were killed in the American genocide. It is bordering on tasteless and the entire book seems rather pointless being pummelled with endless ways of how to kill people in various brutal fashions. I understand McCarthy may be trying to portray how perpetual violence can desensitise people such as soldiers into doing things morally reprehensible but that was not obvious and it may have been more appropriate to use a fictional situation. The irony is you become desensitised reading it to the point my mind switched off. As a fan of The Road, I was disappointed by this.
  
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John Bailey recommended The Wages of Fear (1953) in Movies (curated)

 
The Wages of Fear (1953)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
1953 | Adventure, Thriller
6.3 (3 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"This is a companion portrait of the existential man of The Fire Within, but it is the obverse—men facing their end not by the personal choice of suicide but by literally being blown to bits. Beginning in a slow, sleepy town (an extended sequence that was once severely trimmed), it tracks men who are moving toward death on a literal and metaphorical road but whose ability to face the void ahead of them is Camus-like in its indomitability. Screwed down as tightly as a pipe bomb, this Clouzot film threatens to blow up in front of you at every turn. You want to scream as you reach to grab the truck’s steering wheel."

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