A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Live performing a 9-song set which includes both their own material and a cover of Vic Chesnutt's "Supernatural". 00:00 Operation Spirit 04:19 Selling the Drama 08:19 All Over You 13:23 Beauty of Gray 18:07 T.B.D. 22:47 I Alone 28:03 Supernatural 31:36 Lightning Crashes 37:03 White Discussion
Live performing a 9-song set which includes both their own material and a cover of Vic Chesnutt's "Supernatural". 00:00 Operation Spirit 04:19 Selling the Drama 08:19 All Over You 13:23 Beauty of Gray 18:07 T.B.D. 22:47 I Alone 28:03 Supernatural 31:36 Lightning Crashes 37:03 White Discussion
Live performing a 9-song set which includes both their own material and a cover of Vic Chesnutt's "Supernatural". 00:00 Operation Spirit 04:19 Selling the Drama 08:19 All Over You 13:23 Beauty of Gray 18:07 T.B.D. 22:47 I Alone 28:03 Supernatural 31:36 Lightning Crashes 37:03 White Discussion
A young farm boy spends his days dreaming and making totem-pole like sculptures out of wood. His brother is a go-getter: studies agricultural engineering, comes back with diploma to marry the pretty girl next door. The dreamer graces puts his sculptures around, invoking anger of his father and ridicule of the peasants who find him useless. During the brother's wedding he sets his totems ablaze. He makes a pass at his new sister-in-law, but returns to his own reveries. In the end he hears a call to bring a log out of the marshes, but during the escapade sinks into the bog.
Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the struggle between good and evil, but also between passive and impassive. The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the 1943 Warsaw Uprising. It was originally titled Samson, but re-spelled as Sampson upon its American release to avoid confusion with a sword-and-sandal epic of the same name.
