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great review; I agree on just about everything, including the rating

when they say "a bomb of a disco"

I quote comment number 37.

I agree that the review has a slightly overly enthusiastic tone for the group in question; however, in my opinion, Coldplay are one of the best, if not the best, mainstream bands around, and this *Viva la Vida* is a decent album. Moreover, I don’t think it sounds so shamelessly copied from U2; while you can definitely hear their influence, you can also hear the influence of others. Speaking of which, no matter how hard I try, I just can’t detect any Rammstein-like sounds here. Also, the insistence on drawing parallels with Radiohead and *OK Computer* seems a bit jarring to me.

I expected a response like that, simply because you’re not the first one I’ve had this conversation with. And I reiterate that the violence the Chinese regime is capable of is not the legitimate child and heir of communism, but rather the result of centuries of foreign domination, rebellions quashed in blood, invasions, carpet bombings by the Japanese, the Nanjing massacre, and other atrocities committed by the Japanese, puppet states, warlords, the internecine wars of the twentieth century, and the bloody civil war with the Guomindang (the nationalist party of Chiang Kai-shek, which had nothing to envy in terms of violence). In short, a long legacy of atrocities that has accustomed the country and its people to the use of violence. And frankly, it’s rather foolish to wash one’s hands and attribute all the darkness of Chinese history to the fact that there’s still a hammer and sickle on their flag. Anyway, that’s not the main topic of discussion, so I’ll leave it at that and say goodbye.

@fallen: enough with this China!!! Let me explain: it’s true, in Tiananmen Square the triumphant face of Mao looms large, with the ridiculous slogans "long live the People's Republic of China" and "long live the free peoples of the earth" next to it, and everywhere, on flags, posters, and symbols, there are sickles and hammers. However. However, China stopped being communist with the rise of Deng Xiaoping; since then, all of this has been just a façade, hiding the most unrestrained, dynamic, and uncontrolled capitalism humanity has ever known. It is simply a dictatorship that now uses only the symbols of communism. For this reason, I believe it is at least inaccurate to attribute the regime's barbarities that have occurred in China in the last 20 years to communist ideology. As for the partisans, it seems to me that you are, as the saying goes, lumping everything together, taking unpleasant episodes and using them as a totalitarian example of what the partisan movement was supposed to be, which was, however, something extremely heterogeneous. That’s all; I just wanted to invite you to reflect on this and tell you that I consider your view of the partisans a bit stereotypical, one-dimensional. But perhaps, more or less, we all risk seeing things the way we like to see them.

very nice review. I will definitely try to read this work. even though I have already read several biographies of Che. best regards

absolutely a great film. for me, it's Cronenberg's best, definitely the one that impressed me the most. and as far as I'm concerned, Finnie's performance is impeccable, even in the way he smokes. great review

Anfoxx's speech is a complete jumble of nonsense.

no, but the discussion is pathetic