Two years later, the same term was used in a spine-chilling
Daily Maverick article by Jessica Bezuidenhout, and it has become a phrase that has become part of our vocabulary.
Spine-chilling is too weak a word to describe the feeling I get when I say the words: “Days of Zondo”.
They really have a truly ghastly and ominous sound, these three little words. They have been going through my mind now for… well, days. Ever since my wife has taken up the habit of listening to the State Capture Inquiry news channel on YouTube. My wife has a legal degree, and she finds this live stream stimulating and interesting. Wherever she is in the house at any given moment, I can hear the mumbled, droning voice of The Big Z echoing from her laptop through the rooms.
Friday 12
VOD and theatres
A lot of movies riff on Leonard Cohen but they’re rarely as interesting as the Godfather of Gloom’s work. On one side, you have Sarah Polley’s
Take this Waltz, a romantic drama set to and enhanced by Cohen’s music. On the opposite corner you have self-serving documentaries like
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love in which director Nick Broomfield manages to make their epic story all about himself.
Death of a Ladies’ Man is at least its own beast. This mildly compelling character piece with surrealistic overtones revolves around a Leonard Cohen-like character, Samuel O’Shea (Gabriel Byrne). A poetry teacher who’s a bit of a cad and a full-blown alcoholic, O’Shea is going through a rough patch: his second wife has left him, his job doesn’t fulfill him and, perhaps more pressingly, he’s hallucinating and not in the fun way.