“We do not deal with justice here, but with the law.” “Was not the one conceived to serve the other?” Peter Ustinov’s film Billy Budd claims a Pirandellian moment. One knows from his tight smile covering manipulativeness, fearmongering and depths of paranoia whom Claggart is meant to resemble, as Robert Ryan vividly plays the master-at-arms […]
Daily Archives: November 3, 2008
“Some people are wearing masks,” Calcutta detective Feluda remarks at a mid-point in the case he is investigating—and he is right: an imposter is afoot. Ironically, Feluda himself is hiding behind a made-up identity: Prodosh Mitra. Six-year-old Mukul Dhar worries his parents by drawing pictures of camels, a peacock and a golden fortress at two […]
Dennis Grunes 