[January 2001 journal entry]
After watching a Russian-produced 1960s version of War and Peace with my artist friend Dean, he noted that the Russian production’s treatment of battle scenes gets to the point where he wants to say, “Enough! Enough! I don’t want to see/know any more.” I began thinking about this reaction as a critical/radical threshold re awareness of the realities of human suffering. Some may react thus in an attempt not to cross the threshold beyond which lies radical rethinking/reordering of one’s life.
