“The Boss of it All,” 2006, Lars Von Trier, Denmark, Germany. A hilarious, experimental, dark comedy. A spineless IT boss hires an actor to play the nonexistent “boss of it all,” the scapegoat for everything terrible, but what happens when this actor-qua-CEO realizes his power?
From Dana Villa’s “A Very Short Introduction: Hannah Arendt”
“Frank,” 2014, Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland/UK. A musical genius leads a troupe of experimental musicians in pursuit of a stardom they may not be ready for, and the trip all but frays the thin tethers holding them together but all is not lost, even if fame is not in the cards yet.
This economist is great, on how key government institutions can guide innovation and economic growth and support the private sector to do so as well (and has done so in the case of NASA) but also how government needs to change to attract new innovators. She has a new book out on consultants.
“A Fish in the Bathtub,” Joan Micklin Silver, 1998, US. A tale of a bickering long-married couple whose row (ostensibly) over a fish spills over into the lives of their friends and family, inciting everyone to pull together to pull them back together; will it work?
“Fighting with somebody is better than not having anybody” (Fish in the Bathtub)
People do not merely have opinions but ‘form’ opinions in a community of equals, a political space – Richard Bernstein
Bearer of Pity 