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August 05, 2007
The cartoon also refers to the photographic work of Bill Brandt as well as Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal, that has been much pastiched by Monty Python, Woody Allen, and in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
Steve Bell, Bush, Brown Bergman
In Bergman's films we sense the tension of a barely repressed apocalypse in a world that is full of mortality and death, existential dread, and apocalyptic fears. This is life in the shadow of a death that is simply annihilation.
Life is a danse macabre in a drab rational civilization that is paradise gone sour; a cold modernity where bodies are always in the service of others. No-one really escapes the horrific and liberating negativity (nihilism and hopelessness) that lies just beneath the modern world's civilized veneer.
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Who is the dude on the beach he's likely to playing a brilliant but losing chess hand against?
Hosanna Bin Laden?
That American sheila whose son died in Iraq and camped out in front of his Crawford ranch until she became a national celebrity?
Where do the likes of Rice, Mubarak, Dr Haneef, Dick Cheney, Paris Hilton and Lockheed-Martin fit into it all?