Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night paintingFrank Dicksee La Belle Dame Sans Merci paintingSandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus painting
disordered shadow--lands there stands a wall: men in riot helmets, carrying shields. The reporter speaks gravely; petrolbombs plasticbullets policeinjuries water-- cannon looting, confining himself, of course, to facts. But the camera sees what he does not say. A camera is a thing easily broken or purloined; its fragility makes it fastidious. A camera requires law, order, the thin blue line. Seeking to preserve itself, it remains behind the shielding wall, observing the shadow-lands from afar, and of course from above: that is, it chooses sides. job. A father, a man who likes his pint. He speaks: cannot--tolerate--no--go-areas better-protection--required-for--policemen see--the--plastic--riot--shields--catching--fire. He refers to organized crime, political agitators, bomb--
-- Cut. -- Sun-guns illuminate a new face, saggy-jowled, flushed. This face is named: sub--titled words appear across his tunic. _Inspector Stephen Kinch_. The camera sees him for what he is: a good man in an impossible
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