My favourite things.

AuthorBrandt, Derik
PositionThe Month Starts Here - Brief Article - Interview

What is your favourite movie?

"Valmont. It is an adaptation of the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. I would have listed the movie Dangerous Liaisons, which was also an adaptation of this novel, but Valmont captures something the other does not. I found the movie compelling because just as the main characters in the movie try to push their manipulative and scheming instincts to their maximum in a battle of wits they actually succumb to their kinder and gentler side. While in the end one character dies and one lives, they are both destroyed after recognizing the cruelty they are capable of."

What is your favourite past time?

Reading. I went to an all-boys school run by Basilian priests. Their motto, and that of the school, was "teach me goodness, discipline and knowledge." Not that knowledge is more important, it is the last of the three things mentioned, but I'm always reading about new things to further my...

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