Laughing at Evil

            ....... it has drifted slowly, steadily down the river of the years between then and now, and the long flow of time has brought it to a better place, where critics and filmmakers and moviegoers honor it and even feel protective toward it. The world seems harder than ever, and we all feel, individually, smaller and more vulnerable. Laughing at evil may be an idea whose time has come.

excerpt from

Night of the Hunter ; Holy Terror

Terence Rafferty
Criterion.com
2010

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