In this first installment of our webblog for 2010, I would like each of you to offer comment on "The Last Wave." You may try to sort it out for yourself as one way of writing about it, although I would like it best if you would comment on the film in light of the dialectic of civilization and savagery we have studied these last several months. Should you like to learn more about what Peter Weir was trying to get at by way of the film, have a look at the text of an interview conducted with him in 1979 (2 years after the completion of the film) at:
http://www.peterweircave.com/articles/articlei.html
You may also find some added inspiration for your commentary in the next section of Mazlish we will be reading this coming week. OK, you have until 5 pm Friday to get your comments up. I look forward to seeing them.
"You cannot have have both civilization and truth."
Iris Murdoch
"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."
Henry David Thoreau
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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