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Karl Marx teaches that all great historical events happen two times. The first time is the important event. The second time it happens is a contrived reprise of it - the farce.
Like everything else Marx teaches, this too is wrong. As all you Hollywood watchers know, all great historical events can happen more than twice if its ratings are good. Then, it gets posted on You Tube and plays on forever.
Just the other day, I watched Oliver Stone assassinate President Kennedy again. The movie features footage of the event filmed by Abraham Zhapruder. You can go on the internet and watch Zapruder’s Super 8 film every day if you like, frame by frame.
Russia’s idiotic invasion of Georgia is a historical event with good ratings. Last year, shortly after the war, Putin’s perverse government broadcasted its tendentious version of the event in a made for TV special. Not to be outdone, Hollywood has come to Tbilisi to film the movie version of war. Playing Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is celeb Andy Garcia.
Word leaking out from Georgia, where the film is being shot, is that Garcia has brilliantly capture the frenetic and somewhat mercurial Saakashvili, but his Georgian accent sounds suspiciously Cuban.
Oh well, as they say in Tbilisi, venceremos
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