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Your movie sounds like an interesting
treatment of class issues post WW2.
Historians treat that period as a wondrous
boom time (for the economy) but social
upheavals are rarely mentioned.

Thanks for sharing it Sima!

Sounds like a fun film. I'm amazed at all the good movies on YT. Most are old and B&W but entertaining.

Winter arrives this weekend. Hope you all enjoy the season. Thanks for the OT!

As a youngun, I was mesmerized by the boobtube, but later I felt as if the acting and scripts, in general, were somehow better than the later productions of the film industry. That's an entirely subjective perception. I know a lot of the b&w productions of the "John Wayne" variety were by and large pure propaganda, and that I was unwittingly unduly influenced by them.

A new movie produced in South Korea is Harbin, about the assassination of former Resident General, Ito Hirobumi by national hero/ independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun. It's perfectly timed for release imo, given the current political circumstances, and the new right's huge effort to rewrite and suppress Korean history, especially that of the independence movement during the colonial period imposed by imperial Japan. The historical drama is scheduled for theater release in SK on Dec 24.

'Harbin' cast and director chart legacy of Korean independence hero

Pic below of Ahn Jung-geun, left, and his victim Ito Hirobumi:

(Source- KBS 1 History Journal, ep. 199) Ito was assassinated by Korean patriot Ahn Jung-geun, October 26, 1909 in Harbin, China.

This is from one of Ahn's pieces of calligraphy according to the Wikipedia-

"一日不讀書口中生荊棘" means "Unless you read every day, thorns grow in the mouth."

Thanks for the OT Sima!

I saw that film a few times as a kid, would probably have a much idfferent perspective today, and possibly different today from last week.

Yesterday la58 (iirc) recommended aeon to QMS, and since I have stumbled across specific pages/articles that I liked before, I loaded up the site. (aeon.com) There I quickly found an article titled The Order of Anarchyhttps://aeon.co/essays/what-san-francisco-carpooling-tells-us-about-anar..., which talks initially about a Berkeley "organic" ride-share system, for rides from Berkeley to SF's financial district. I actually remember it well. It evolved on its own, out of nowhere, as a win-win for drivers and riders due to the peculiarities of the bridge toll system.

The author expands from there, referencing several works of a particular anarchist writer/advocate. What he speaks to isn't "overthrow the state" anarchy, nor "anarchist party/organization" anarchy, but the anarchy that just grows out of the right circumstances, a self-organizing phenomena where people, independent of governments or formal organizations evolve solutions to issues or ways to exploit opportunities. Unorganized self-rule that does not tend to become Lord of the Flies The Berkeley free ride-share phenomenon still thrives and will so long as the circumstances favor it and the law allows it. There is a lesson there.

The funny thing is, when I read the summary of the plot of It Happened on 5th Avenue above I suddenly saw the shadows and outlines of some such unorganized self-rule that became formalized and yet grew out of anarchic beginnings. There is much we can all learn and understand about the possibilities of success through "relative autonomy from the state". For starts, there is a booklist embedded in the aeon article, starting with James C Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed , which I just might have to procure and read.

If it isn't obvious, I recommend the article.

be well and have a good one