Stones from Underground

"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"

 

This saying rings with the same “do as you’re told” banality of most adages. It carries with it a moral wrapped in a simple watered down version of reality: “don’t you criticise anyone or you’ll be criticised yourself”.

 

Here’s my point: Screw That.

The Internet is all about providing a place where angry nerds can fling spiteful tirades at whoever they please and happily expect no response in return. Except for maybe the angry agreement of other nerds.

This is why I have called my blog “Stones from Underground”. If I can’t throw stones from inside my glass house, then I’m just going to have to throw them from a place no one can see.

 

Throwing stones from underground is what blogging is.

 

In this world of political turmoil, international grief, economic downturn, what do I choose to blog about? Movies.

 

Why?

Because they are important.

 

They don’t have the same tangible effect on people’s lives as losing your job or having a bomb dropped on your head.

 

Their importance is larger than individual happenings.

 

Films tell us about the world we live in, culturally and politically. The fact that Hollywood is producing action films like the Bourne Identity these days as opposed to the Stallone/Schwarzenegger kill-fests of the Reagan-omic eighties tells us something about how America has changed. They tell us about how our world has changed.

Films affect and reflect the world we live in. Let’s throw stones at them.