Mogwai

a) if somebody gives you the option of either being robbed/shot if you resist, or leaving the area, it's hard to make the case that the interaction is voluntary. this is easy to see if it's a guy on the street or a guy barging into your house making this proposition. I don't see how the situation is altered if the guy also claims to be a representative of the "goverment' other than revealing that in addition to being a criminal, he's also a lunatic. saying that by choosing to remain that you volunteer for this abuse is just away of obscuring the moral issue and blaming the victim. it's the distorted logic of abusers who want their aggression to be above question or reproach, but have your response to that abuse, regardless of what it is (be it leaving or staying), be a tacit approval of their behavior.

yeah, he really mirrors stef's style in dealing with alex in not allowing himself to get sucked into or lumped into his ridiculous rants, while still being able to relate to and find solidarity with him. as a fan of billy's I think he would benefit greatly from learning about molyneux's approach to illuminating the relationship between childhood trauma, philosophy and the state of the world...this is an old clip from I think 2004 where Billy talks candidly about being abused... http://youtu.be/i-WoiTLTcL4

Fantastic third installment to Richard Linklaters the "Before" series. A lot darker too. It dredged up a lot of unresolved, buried feelings about my parents divorce, and like the first two the acting is phenomenal.