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Sweet Tooth
2019 · Film · short · 23 min
Directed by Shannon Ashlyn
Set in 1780, Sweet Tooth is a dark and magical fairy tale film inspired by the classic story of Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, but it is the untold story of the wicked witch and her infamous gingerbread house.
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> Lacking the shame
Never be ashamed.
Sweet Tooth[0] is an interesting novel. It's about how the (British) MI5 involves itself with artists to promote anti-communism in the 70's. The novel opens itself up to to discovering Francis Stonor Saunders' "Who Paid the Piper"[1] which is a book about how the CIA used literature as a cultural weapon against the Soviet Union, also very interesting.
Ian McEwen can take us to all sorts of strange places.
I'm not a big reader of McEwan, but the next thing on my shelf is "Solar" which looks quite interesting. If you want to expand your reading outside of McEwan then dip into his pal Martin Amis and his earlier works such as Dead Babies, or even The Rachel Papers (ignore the film).
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Tooth_(novel)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Paid_the_Piper%3F