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UAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, yes I think I know them...UAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAH

Paloz, I sincerely hope you are joking when you recklessly claim that "the book is reserved for a certain type of reader." I wish, my friend, you would realize the SQUALOR of this book/movie, which is nothing more than a commercial operation set up by some entertainment multinational that, sensing the recent interest of the large (and mostly STUPID) public in plots concerning esotericism, occultism, and religion, has decided to gather around a table a dozen people including marketing experts, editors of various sorts of cheap novels, and trend researchers, in order to create a product destined, mathematically speaking, to meet the favor of the largest possible number of people. In this way, a trashy product like "The Da Vinci Code" comes to light. As any keen eye can notice, it integrates all possible narrative threads: the love story, the action scene, the adventure, the mystery, the pseudo-cultural thread (clearly all at a quality that makes teletubbies shine like eternal stars of art) in order to satisfy anyone who reads/watches the book/movie. I hate to see that there are people who truly think this garbage is a masterpiece. With indignation.

Wonderful, the best chapter of Gorgoroth, the finest voice that black metal has ever known. I have also seen them live and "Rite Of Infernal Invocation" was a mystical experience. Perfect review, but perhaps I would have focused more on the rotten and funereal aspect of the album.
And the devil is calling...

Hahaha! Maybe you're right eifez, but taake, urgehal, and koldbrann are certainly not unknowns, right? And anyway, I know that they're scarce where you are; we were supposed to play at a black metal festival near Cosenza last month, with Arcanus Nox and Infernal Angels, but it wasn't possible due to organizational issues.

"A historic event, of enormous proportions"....UAHAHAHAH! My friend, honestly, I’m sorry, I don't want to make fun of you, but maybe you don't know that on the very day of this concert, in Sondrio, here in Italy, there were TAAKE+URGEHAL+KOLDBRANN... now that was a historic live show!

I see that you are being a bit stubborn. I thought it was clear that it was an example and (this is for you, Aniel) it seemed obvious to me that it was meant to be paradoxical. Wanting to play along (am I wrong, or are you pretending not to understand?), I will explain that what matters in an action like those mentioned above is the will to do harm. The merely "physical" way in which this is carried out doesn't matter. This is the meaning of that phrase from the Talmud that says "Whoever saves a life saves the entire world," because if this is true, the opposite is also true (whoever kills a person kills the entire world), precisely because what matters is the sentiment… between an unfair fine, a beating, a murder, and a genocide, the difference is only the scale of magnitude. I'll stop here: let those who have ears understand.

Phidias, my friend, to say that my statement is unfounded is to be a bit superficial. You say, "a criminal plan so meticulously studied can only be produced by a diseased mind"... well, let's see, is there really a big difference between planning the Holocaust and planning, to say something absurd, to not let anyone pass without giving a fine? Ideologically, what matters is the willingness to do evil. One doesn't need to be mad for that... the constant effort to depict the Führer as a madman is simply a symptom of society's fear to look within and learn that, ultimately, man is the worst beast. Regards.

It seems to me a decent review, fairly balanced, except for some points, which capture the film quite well. A few minor notes. I found a bit contradictory the paragraph in which you question the Führer's actual humanity (for my part, to doubt humanity means simply to not know the beast that is man), with the one in which you say that in the film he is indeed presented as a man. As you can see, the two theses clash: if the Führer is not a man, then he cannot be represented as such. Enlighten me, if you don't mind, because I haven't quite understood...
I also want to spend a few words on the much-praised madness of Hitler. Personally, I do not believe in a latent madness in the Führer from the early years of adulthood: I find, and my thesis is supported by facts, that the events we all know and can attribute to Hitler are the natural continuation of the alchemy set in motion between the Führer's charisma, the social malaise of Germany, and the unlimited power placed in the Führer's own hands. It was primarily a delusion of omnipotence induced, with all the mental disturbances that ensue, but which was not implicit in Hitler's mind. It is well-known, power goes to one's head. History repeats itself every day: give a little power to an angry person, and you will see what happens. The difference between Hitler and an irritated subway controller is just a matter of scale.

Wonderful, not so much for the contents, but because I would like to serve it up to the crazy teenagers who a few years ago idolized that little film called Titanic.

But am I the only one who knows it? In my very humble opinion (it's one of the very few bands of this kind that I know), the album is a 5.