Love and Hate

Robert Mitchum was always the ultimate bad boy of the Noir Age. Here he is as the deadly preacher in The Night of the Hunter (1955). Derek Prosser described it as one of the most daring, eloquent and personal films to have come out of America. All true. 

The tats were, of course, an addition by Mitchum himself. 

The children's magical river journey in the film inspired the grisly opening of Zen city, Iso and the dream sequence towards the end. 

Love and Hate

      Ying and Yang

Art: hand-painted painting on a tie

Paul Klee, 1879 - 1940 "I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is as much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, But still not close enough."

A fairly serious sort of chap I think it’s fair to say. Not an accusation that can be levelled at irreverent Orson Palmer, the main character in Zen City, Iso who wears a tie featuring a hand-painted copy of Klee’s work.

Allowing him to make an existential statement through sartorial means? Or just being loud? 

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