Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

 

JACK THE RIPPER MEETS CINDERELLA

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/jack-the-ripper-meets-cinderella-370f5d92989f

 

A recent but bad film on Jack the Ripper identified as the dissecting morgue doctor who does his homework at night in the streets by killing prostitutes and then dissects them a second time the following day to write a report about the great skill of the killer who must have a high level of medical and surgical training. You can imagine how he knows.

Why he does it is absolutely nil. He is an alcoholic, and his wife refuses to have any sexual contact with him as long as he drinks his daily liquor. So, he compensates for his shortage of flesh pleasures by killing prostitutes but remains faithful to his wife by not using these prostitutes according to their profession.

Prokofiev produced great ballet music with this Cinderella, but the ballet by Matthew Bourne is very mediocre and extremely morbid, as if the evocation of the 1940 Battle of London were something palatable today, except if you want to prepare the audience to the horrible thing that is happening in the slow falling of the American and Western Empire. Don’t worry it will happen, and soon, though progressively, and they will be tempted to drop an atom bomb on Moscow or Gaza, but will they dare? Why not Beijing? I am sure that some are dreaming of it, like a certain Goldwater who wanted to drop one on Hanoi, in the good old days of the US crushing the whole world under their constant blackmail to erase humanity from this sorry planet.

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

Sociology of Crime and Deviance,  *  War Studies,  *  Folk and Fairy Tales,  *  Prokofiev,  *  Cinderella