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movie review - My Father is a Hero

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 1997.01.11

A B kung-fu flick about an HK cop who loses his wife and rescues his son while bringing a host of baddies to brutal justice. Changes pace half way through and becomes a comedy. I toughed it out, but can't suggest you do the same. It's on days like this that I acknowledge I watch too many movies.

Not recommended.

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Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke