Regulation

The Abbott government is releasing a Guide to Regulation. I had a sneak peak and this is breaking news people. Inside it was scrawled in red crayons "relugation = bad" and "bisness = good". Also a stick figure with giant blue penis. True story.

On Kieslowski

From Roger Ebert's review of Three Colours

We see him (the judge in 'Red') like so many of Kieslowski's characters, swimming upward through a suffocating life toward the possibility that hope still floats somewhere above.

I connect strongly with Kieslowski because I sometimes seek a whiff of transcendence by revisiting places from earlier years. I am thinking now of a cafe in Venice, a low cliff overlooking the sea near Donegal, a bookstore in Cape Town and Sir John Soane's breakfast room in London. I am drawn to them in the spirit of pilgrimage. No one else can see the shadows of my former and future visits there, or know how they are the touchstones of my mortality, but if some day as I approach the cafe, I see myself just getting up to leave, I will not be surprised to have missed myself by so little.

No wonder, Roger Ebert called him "one of the filmmakers I would turn to for consolation if I learned I was dying, or to laugh with on finding I would live after all".

On a side note: Juliette Binoche! I have nothing to add.