Re: opionated
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 05 May 1998 09:03:36 +1000
> It's what terrifies me about the phenomenon of things like Pulp Fiction,
> the film. It was, very simply, a brilliant piece of work. If you begin
> to judge it ethically, though, things get dangerous. Then comes words
> like Censorship and Banning. Or, on the other end, which I find at
> least equally dangerous...Well, I just listen to people talk about the
> movie, some of them, and I'm frightened by the way that they take it as
> a sort of Green Light to violence, murder, and excessive abuse of very
> dangerous drugs. Instead of watching the film as a pretty silly satire
> on very serious issues, they watch it as a dismissal of the seriousness
> of the issues. And now they've got me judging the film on morality,
> which bothers me doubly.
I think this is a decision you have to make in regards to a lot of pieces
of art. I was just recently shown DW Griffith's `Birth of a Nation', which
basically invented modern film as we know it and thus is a piece of
technical genius. Unfortunately it's basically a propaganda piece for the
Klu Klux Klan. But I guess you have to separate these two layers to
understand or interpret them independent of one another, which is a
difficult thing to do when these touchy subjects are involved.
I can't stand to even think about the whole John Lennon thing, I find it so
heartbreaking that some maniac has cast a pall on such a wonderful,
innocent book. I think he should be placed in the `Listening to Megadeth
made me shoot my parents' category - no one can just up and do something
like that without some premeditation in their own right. It's just a poor
excuse.
Camille
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