{"id":89102,"date":"2014-01-24T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T09:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=89102"},"modified":"2014-01-28T08:41:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T08:41:02","slug":"inside-llewyn-davis-artist-in-a-philistine-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=89102","title":{"rendered":"“Inside Llewyn Davis” – Artist in a Philistine World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Henry Makow Ph. D. — henrymakow.com Jan 23, 2014<\/h1>\n

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This movie <\/span><\/strong>is about a few days in the life of a struggling folk singer in 1960’s Greenwich Village. <\/span><\/h5>\n
For 90 minutes, I was in a time capsule. I was “<\/em>Inside Llewyn Davis” and I liked it there. Some reviewers describe him as cold but I disagree. \u00a0He is an artist in a Philistine world. One scene epitomizes it. He hitches to Chicago for an audition with Albert Grossman. He pours his heart into a beautiful melody, only to be told, “I don’t see the money.” <\/span><\/h5>\n
\"\"<\/a>Writer & Directors, the Joel and Ethan Coen (right) lend a Fellini-like quality to the\u00a0 people Davis encounters. <\/span><\/h5>\n
As with their film “A Serious Man<\/span>,”<\/a> they are\u00a0 John <\/span>Audubons<\/span><\/a> of 1960’s-era Jews, and goyim too for that matter.\u00a0 This probably is why they got <\/span>no major Oscar<\/span> nominations<\/span>. <\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/h5>\n
Like their protagonist, the Coen’s didn’t compromise. \u00a0Although a critical succes<\/span>s<\/span><\/a>, the film has only made $11 million so far.<\/span><\/h5>\n
A\u00a0steaming turd like “The Wolf of Wall Street<\/span>“<\/a> has earned $92 million to date and got Oscar nominations for Actor, Director and Best Picture. In a society run by coprophiliacs, this stands to reason. <\/span><\/h5>\n
Llewyn Davis is played by a beautiful and talented actor Oscar Isaac. His character is ambiguous ethnically. His sister and some friends are Jewish but his father was a merchant seaman, not a Jewish occupation. The fact that Dave Van Ronk’s autobiography \u00a0“The Mayor of McDougal Street” <\/em>provided inspiration for the screenplay may explain this ambiguity.<\/span><\/h5>\n
The movie has a meditative quality. You are in the moment, as when Davis awakes to the sound of a rocking chair and someone eating cornflakes.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Inside Llewyn Davis<\/span><\/em> depicts the fate of beauty in a coarse, brutalized society. The protagonist has nothing but his music and <\/span>his <\/span>integrity. He refuses to compromise. <\/span><\/h5>\n
He made me feel that we define ourselves by what we do when no one is looking, when no one can learn what we did. For example, he sang a heartrending song for his dying father who is suffering from dementia. It is unclear how his father was affected by it, except to release his bladder. <\/span><\/h5>\n
Virtue is its own reward. There is no happy ending. <\/span><\/h5>\n
In the final scene, we see the young Bob Dylan performing. Somehow, Dylan <\/span>knew how to<\/span> compromise<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n

ON A DIFFERENT NOTE<\/h2>\n

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Continues … <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In contrast to a steaming turd like “Wolf of Wall St”, the Coen brothers latest illustrates a rare lesson. Henry Makow explains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":89106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89102"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89388,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102\/revisions\/89388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}