'Lopate discusses filmmaker Dusan Makavejev consideration and enthusiasm to remake the movie The Blue Light. There was a refreshingly amoral suspension of disbelief to Makavejev's enthuisasm–at the very least, a reluctance to make the usual condemning judgments preferring to exhibit a baffled wonderment of his favorite word "Incredible!" He was an advocate of liberation, especially sexual liberation, but also warned of the violence that could be unleashed when the self-repressive character armor breaks down–or in political terms, when idealism gives way to the urge for domination.' (Publication abstract)
'Lopate discusses filmmaker Dusan Makavejev consideration and enthusiasm to remake the movie The Blue Light. There was a refreshingly amoral suspension of disbelief to Makavejev's enthuisasm–at the very least, a reluctance to make the usual condemning judgments preferring to exhibit a baffled wonderment of his favorite word "Incredible!" He was an advocate of liberation, especially sexual liberation, but also warned of the violence that could be unleashed when the self-repressive character armor breaks down–or in political terms, when idealism gives way to the urge for domination.' (Publication abstract)
