THE RAZOR'S EDGE - The Holyman

[FalseFlag369]

What is interesting is the fact that Germany put Lenin on a train near the end of WWI and rushed him into Russia so as to spearhead a revolution that ushered in the Bolsheviks that the Germans came to hate in the 20's & 20's. It was all done to get Russia out of WWI so that the Germans could concentrate on the Western Front. The hatred the Nazis had for Lenin/Stalin and Jewish/Soviet Bolshevism seems ironic in light of the fact none of it would have happened if they had not sent Lenin in.

[shanghaibenny2]

@FalseFlag369

Lenin may have spearheaded the take over of parliament, i.e, silence the opposition, but the main uprising was largely over already. It broke out spontaneously in many part of Russia without the help of anyone in particular.The communists were a minority party. There were many other political factions as well. For more information read "Russia in the 20th Century" by Robert Service.

[FalseFlag369]

@shanghaibenny2 The Bolsheviks were the extreme movement and Lenin was the catalyst when compared to others in opposition to Kerensky. What's the point of going tit for tat over this? We could give each other history lessons all day. I could also recommend a lot of good books such as "A Concise History of the Russian Revolution" by Richard Pipes, "Fighting The Bolsheviks" by Donald E. Cary, "A History of Russia" By Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, and of course Robert Service's LENIN!

[FalseFlag369]

Somerset Maugham is one of my favorite authors. Stories like this and The Letter have been made into excellent films. A life without introspection is no life at all, and Larry is alive and wondering why. Many returning veterans ended up in Paris as the Lost Generation, because they saw WWI as a waste of human life perpetrated by machinery that could tear a body to pieces. Wall Street War Mongers were blamed for the carnage. PTSD was called shell shock back then, and aptly so!

[shanghaibenny2]

@FalseFlag369

WWI did not really end with the armistice; the carnage was extended into WWII. We might call this time period The Thirty Years War of the Twentieth Century.

[FalseFlag369]

@shanghaibenny2I agree. The problem with "peacetime" is that it is war by other means on an economic front. One has to ask: Peace on whose terms? The victors always write history their way, and those that win become the dominant forces in the world, especially the U.S. after WWII. The fascism & the axis bloc was partially the product of the economic times. Japan needed resources it couldn't get from its island nation, and Germany was also pushed into a corner of debt due to the Armistice.

[shanghaibenny2]

@FalseFlag369

We might say grimly, war is the natural state of man interrupt by periods of peace. WWI was about empire building (Germany) and empire preservation (all the other guys). It also gave rise to communism to which fascism is a reactionary movement. Japan wanted natural resources and huge chunks of China. Trade disputes cause war. "If goods do not cross borders, then armies will." - Bastiat. That's why the US kicked opened the door to Japan - as an outlet for overproduced goods.

[FalseFlag369]

@shanghaibenny2 True, but the term fascist comes from the Roman fasces (which you can see on each side of the speaker’s chair in congress). The Roman Empire was the first fascist system. Fascism is a totalitarian, dictatorial system, where unlimited power rests in the Executive branch. In Hitler's Germany, close association with industry helped in his rise to power, just as the Industrial-Military-Complex Eisenhower warned us about now controls government domestic and foreign policy.

[whm5609]

This movie was 30 years ahead of its time!

[whm5609]

Hondo0101 i have seen the movie three times and it is a sham. Mar 1, 2011 -- stupid comment. Why watch it three times then? Read the book, it is really inspiring.

[whm5609]

1946 was the best year ever for movies: Vacation From Marriage, The Best Uears of Our Lives, It's a Wonderful Life and the Razors Edge all contended for the Oscar for best film. Any one of them would have won it in any other year!

[profMike54]

Love this video! my Mom's cousin Tyrone Powers is amazing. Just saw the film after watching the PBS History of India.. perfect!

[Dris49]

All I can say is fill up your heart with goodness.& love one another.

[Hondo0101]

i have seen the movie three times and it is a sham.

[blueeagle8066]

This movie definitely encapsulates my life.I love the original and new version (and the book).

[flaminia5]

the whole story is just so wrong in itself, i would suggest it to Orson Wells

[shanghaibenny2]

@flaminia5

Interesting point, worth pondering. Even when the film first came out many people were put off by the soul-searching. Very, very uncommercial.

[flaminia5]

@shanghaibenny2 well, i disagree, it could be quite commercial, but after watching both films i am quite sure, the whole story is a sort of a fake, but in a spiritual way, the worst thing in the world (or nearly so)

[shanghaibenny2]

@flaminia5

Have not seen the remake. I do not know, if I could accept Bill Murray as Larry Darrell: a limitation on my part. My point is that audiences seem to prefer the hero who saves the day by kicking butts, rather than someone who fights from the inside. The list is endless.

[flaminia5]

@shanghaibenny2 yes, it's

but my point is that the hero of this story just goes to the East, comes back and makes the same mess as if he never learnt anything, such "soul-seecking" is just another nonsense, at least if we believe the author, this compromise the very idea

[FalseFlag369]

@flaminia5 One has to look at the time it was published (1944) when we were in another conflict. A good book is by Selina Hastings "The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham." "Of Human Bondage" is supposed to be his best work. Theodore Dreiser is another great author of that era ("An American Tragedy" is my favorite). I also like "The Moon and Sixpence", and "Catalina" which I thought was excellently researched on his part about the Catholic Church. See DVD "Bhutan" Taking the Middle Path.

[flaminia5]

@FalseFlag369 it has to do with the time, yes, but the greatest books don't lose their importance with the time passing; nevertheless i see your point, greetings!

[FalseFlag369]

@flaminia5 I agree that some books do stand the test of time better than others. What books do you put in that category? I would select books that deal with the human condition as the ones I will read over again. Some of Maugham’s, Steinbeck, Hemmingway, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Dreiser etc. In any case, I think soul searching is a good endeavor. Some of us will compromise our ideals by going to work in bomb plant while never questioning what we are doing.

[mcwm1]

@shanghaibenny2

I'd recommend watching the Bill Murray version. I thought the same thing (about Murray in the role), but he makes an excellent Larry Darrel. There are things that the first movie captures from the book that are missing in the second version, and vice versa. But both have something special. The book is one of my favorites, possibly my favorite book. (If I were a Fahernheit 451 character, I would probably be The Razor's Edge.)

[beachkrp]

@mcwm1 Agreed, the remake misses some of the great lines from the first scene of the original but the remake has the scene with the guy in the boat on the river, and the bit where he starts to burn his books that are missing from the original

[WC3POchannel10A]

@shanghaibenny2 Murray's is one of my favorite films of all.

[beachkrp]

@shanghaibenny2  Are you sure about that? What are your sources? This was an adaptation of a Somerset Maugham novel. Maugham was the highest earning novelists through the entire 40's . There was a bidding war on the rights to make this movie, with even a penalty clause if filming had not started by a certain time.

[Grifiki]

And the World was flat! The line in the sand so thick, seperating Grain, from Grain. Old Movies, of times with so little future yo look forward. You are what you eat. Then the Transistor was born, and movies also...

[srivani12727]

It was sometime during the first half of those mid-late 1920s a nearly disguised young American traveler on a spiritual quest toward Enlightenment, that gained fame anonymously some years later in a novel by the famous British playwright W. Somerset Maugham titled The Razor's Edge, visited Siddharemeshwar, one of the first Americans to do so. It has been written that from his stay in India he gained peace of mind.-Sri siddha rameshwar was a contemporary of sri ramana maharishi.

sai ram

[sw7ng]

can anyone give me the full script of this scene?PLZZZZ its for my essay

[4Topwood]

Surely one of Alfred Newman's best scores.

[shanghaibenny2]

The music is so beautiful and sweet.

[vijaymohanrao]

One more thing. The character in this film speaks Hindi. Actualy, Sri Ramana Maharshi did not speak Hindi. His mother tongue is Tamil and he is educated and spoke good English language as well.

[vijaymohanrao]

I enjoyed it very much. Saint in film actualy looked as "Rabidnranath Tagore" the Poet of India. (The saint was wearing a loin-cloth to cover his private part. He was beared only a stubble was there alwaya. He rarely spoke but transmitted extraordinary spiritual power nd transformed him. Thanks once again. Any one can vist Sri Ramana Maharishi just clin on to you tube his name or simply Arunachalam. etc., No. of clips open to our rejoice. Thank you Shanghaibenny2, once again.