Wow. this sounds awful– truly, epically awful. A Tim-Robbins-scripted play about the war in “Gomorrah” in which characters named”Woof” and “Pearly WHite” walk around saying “Heil Leo Strauss!”– with a projection of Strauss’ face on the screen, no less.
Robbins is a brilliant actor and a first-rate director. Even when he’s scratched his propaganda itch before– e.g. Bob Roberts– he’s managed to create something with significant entertainment value; and Dead Man Walking managed to oppose the death penalty while still treating it as a vexed moral problem. It was among the most serious treatments of a difficult moral-political issue I’ve seen on a movie screen.
Now, he appears to have gone way, way off the deep end.
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