No direction home.

Visto "No direction home", il documentario di Scorsese su Bob Dylan.

Non mi soprendo quando Dylan dice che "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" non voleva rappresentare alcun monito contro il fallout nucleare, anzi forse non sapeva bene neanche lui quale fosse il significato di quella canzone. Si sarebbe divertito a sentire quello che i critici avrebbero detto in proposito.

"It's not atomic rain, it's just a hard rain."

Eppure una generazione di persone l'ha eletta a proprio slogan, l'ha strumentalizzata durante la guerra fredda e la crisi missilistica con Cuba.

Ecco che cosa dice ancora oggi James G. Blight, Professor of International Relations (Research) at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies:

"On the evening of October 26, 1962, a young 22-year-old man for Minnesota was holed up in a basement apartment in Greenwich Village owned by the folksinger, Dave Van Ronk. He was known as Bob Zimmerman, but by that time had preferred the name Bob Dylan. And that night, Bob Dylan wrote a song called "Hard Rain-- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall". A hard rain of missiles, a hard rain of atmospheric fallout."

(Da: "On the Brink: The Cuban Missile Crisis", with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Theodore Sorensen, Sergei Khrushchev and Josefina Vidal; Moderated by James G. Blight and Introduced by Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation, October 20, 2002. Fonte: JFK Library).

Per inciso, James G. Blight, insieme a Janet M. Lang, "served as principal, substantive advisors to Morris and McNamara, throughout the planning, production, and premiers" di "The Fog of War" (Fonte: Watson Institute) (su "The fog of War" vedi post del 2005/11/24).

Non ci si puo' fidare proprio di nessuno, tantomeno delle relazioni implicite.