The Brittish

Alright, let me start off by marking that Brazil, was the best movie I've seen in awhile. After seeing a few of my peer's faces, they didn't seem to agree, and then reading the little pink packety thing, turns out a common consensus among Americans is that Brazil is just too weird. According to the pink thing, Universal Pictures of America wasn't interested in promoting the film. Brittan on the other hand was warm-welcoming the film of many faces, crazy, iron man meets fairy world and all. Then I got to thinking...wait, isn't Flaubert's Parrot British as well? So, not that I want to jump to some huge conclusions but, are the English the birth place of post-modernism? Some more thinking and, wait, isn't England and that general area the birth place of literature in general? So basically, they figure, eh...well Shakespeare did that romanticism thing pretty well, realism you go Flaubert (granted he's French...but that goes with the "general area" quotation), and now they're bored with their normal fiction, and want to switch it up a bit. Leave it to the British to turn a story topsy-turvy in hopes of something "bloody brilliant". Gotta hand it to them, it worked. Now how long before we see a huge Po-Mo (quoted by Lav-Dog) spree in our homeland? How long before Americans bust down their walls of what's real, what's acceptable, and embrace off-the-wall. Keep in mind I'm not generalizing the whole nation into the classification of, well, blah...but this is the nation that sees radical book-burnings and what not, of classical literary fiction...not even controversial works like the Bible or something. We are the people that burn The Lorax because it could imply homosexuality (I'm not saying it does, I'm just trying to bring it home). Basically we could look at this as a double blow to our society that wanted to break from the evil throne so badly; now they are much more creative, accepting and witty (not mentioned above, but noteworthy) than we are...and our land of tolerance and freedom is all a sham. Bloody hell.