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GUILTY PARTY GIRL<\/strong>: Last night I finished Rene Girard\u2019s study The Scapegoat<\/em>, and then (re-)watched Derek Jarman\u2019s Edward II<\/em>. It was a pretty awesome juxtaposition\u2013Jarman\u2019s movie (it\u2019s been yonks since I read the play, so I\u2019m confining comments to the movie for now) is all vengeance, no mercy. I\u2019m pretty sure the love\u2026 rhombus, at the center, is an example of \u201cmimetic desire,\u201d too, even though I still don\u2019t really know what that is. (I sometimes felt like Girard was trying to make everything<\/em> mimetic desire, which seemed\u2026 unnecessarily confusing.)<\/p>\n

And although there are scapegoats and victims in the movie, it was largely about one thing that I really felt was missing from Girard\u2019s book: guilty victims. I know he\u2019s hammering on the innocence of the scapegoats for a reason; but if you\u2019re going to have a comprehensive theory of victimization, and\/or of Christian reconciliation (he seems to work hard to avoid the terms \u201cmercy\u201d and \u201cforgiveness\u201d), I really want to know what happens to the guilty people. I, uh, I take a personal interest, you know?<\/p>\n

As for Edward II<\/em>: The music is terrific. Tilda Swinton, for once, is awesome as a kind of Queen Bree van de Kamp, Homicidal Heterosexual Terrorist<\/a>. I usually dislike Swinton\u2019s acting in general and her roles in Jarman movies in particular\u2013he seems to use her as a Javanese shadow-puppet figure of Woman. And I have no problem with characters as silhouettes; but I do have at least potential problems with stories in which the men are allowed individuality, but the women get only iconicity<\/a>. And that\u2019s happening in Edward II<\/em>, I think, but I don\u2019t mind it because Swinton is so crazily compelling. \u2026Movie definitely falls into the typical Jarman traps described here<\/a>. Despite the rancid atmosphere, it slid into sentimentality and self-pity, and I probably shouldn\u2019t\u2019ve liked it as much as I did\u2026.<\/p>\n

As for The Scapegoat<\/em>: Although my fur was up and my claws out for the first half of the book, I eventually felt like I understood where Girard was going, and was pretty amazed by it. Still have problems with it, need to read it at least one more time, etc etc. Comments, recommendations and so on w\/r\/t Girard more than welcome. Am working on story about Herod now.<\/p>\n

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.<\/em>
\u2014<\/em>Matt. 11:12<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"