God is good all the time.

ryc... I think I'll pick up the book at the library tonight.  I hadn't known that the movie departed in any significant way from the book (though they usually do, don't they?).  Brace yourself when you see the film.  It is unbelievably violent, though in truth it cannot be said to be gratuitously violent.  It is also filled with profanity, in case that bothers you.  And yet....it is compelling, a work of genius by either the original author, or the filmmakers, or both.  However, I'm sort of prejudiced here, as I have a bit of a taste for surrealism and for the dadaistic, and not everyone else shares that taste.  The movie can even be said to be prolife, though not intentionally I'm sure.  For that reason it received some minor attention in the religious press when it came out a year or two ago.  It certainly testifies to the bankrupcy of modern cultural trends.  I suspect the film says more than its makers intended.  Perhaps it speaks about themselves, as well.  It is as though the secular world is projecting its own vision of hell, but doesn't realize that its own representatives made that hell themselves, nor do those same representatives realize that the solution they implicitly long for and raise up in the film is actually the very thing they reject in reality.  It's all very thought provoking.

Wait, it's not peace talks, it's some sort of academic China-Taiwan program.