{"id":674,"date":"2006-11-22T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2007-05-12T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T23:24:15","slug":"thanksgiving-brutality-eric-bogosians-talk-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/674\/thanksgiving-brutality-eric-bogosians-talk-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Brutality: Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"I like brutal art — no mercy, no quarter. I like any sort of brutality on the part of the artist, by which I mean the refusal to temporize or euphemize or in any other way permit the audience to gloss over or ignore reality. Understand, I don’t seek a gratuitous squalor, but rather an unforgiving acknowledgment that reality is what it is. This is what I love so much in the plays of Henrik Ibsen, who gives me ambiguous or tragic endings and teaches me more about real life than a dozen treatises.<\/p>\n

All that is by way of introduction to a recommendation: The film Talk Radio<\/i> by Oliver Stone and Eric Bogosian. It’s the most amazingly brutal film I’ve ever seen, absolutely no let-up from start to finish. I have Bogosian’s original playscript, but the film screenplay is substantially richer. Moreover, Stone’s camera tricks are superb; the film plays huge implication games with reflections, focus-shifting, facial reactions, etc. Similarly, Stewart Copeland (of The Police) provides a deeply disturbing score. Finally, the actors — especially Bogosian as radio talk show host Barry Champlain — are outstanding.<\/p>\n

The film is “based on a true story,” the last days of Denver talk radio host Alan Berg, as documented in the book Talked to Death<\/i> by Stephen Singular. But “true stories” are omnipresent and banal, where art is the thing that won’t turn you loose. I defy anyone to even breathe<\/i> in Act III of Talk Radio<\/i>. The film builds and builds until the tension is so immense it envelopes the room. And then, just when you can’t stand it, Stone and Bogosian throw the most horrifyingly perfect five minutes of agony right in your face, and you sweat and the tendons in your neck pop and you strain and you strain and you strain, desperate<\/i> to turn away. But you can’t<\/i> turn away, you can’t stand what you’re seeing and you can’t bear to miss a second<\/i> of it.<\/p>\n

Hedda Gabler<\/i>, always, and Ghosts<\/i>, and the fourth and fifth acts of Hamlet<\/i>. I can think of more examples, but not many more. Great art says, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like brutal art — no mercy, no quarter. I like any sort of brutality on the part of the artist, by which I mean the refusal to temporize or euphemize or in any other way permit the audience to gloss over or ignore reality. 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