Now I'm Bored

I know this isn't much of a surprise. When I can't be moving around like I want to I tend to get bored. I slept a lot through mid-afternoon. Been up and walking around. Took a shower. How's that for excitement!

Last evening caught the classic 1950 Best Picture All the King's Men which also got Broderick Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge acting awards. It was a politcs movie based on the life of Huey Long, the Louisiana politician. It was dated in many ways- esp. the melodrama and music style that was appropriate for that era. It was a powerful indictment of American politics based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren.

An interesting trivia note from the broadcast was that the role of politician Willy Stark was originally to go to John Wayne. Wayne didn't like the script saying that it portrayed America and politics in a bad light.

At a deeper level, like so many top novels and movies it explores the depths of human sinfulness- a basic characteristic that Willy Stark utilized to get what he wanted. No is without sin- no, not one.

Perhaps except The One whose Lenten journey we are walking again.