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Originally Posted by adam
You should be neutral on it, Paul, because you haven't seen it. The reason the art label gives it a pass is because, as I said, I don't think any topic is exempt from artistic representation. Therefore, I think criticism of the movie isn't fair solely on the basis of its topic, therefore, I think it makes sense to remain neutral until you see it. Otherwise, you're saying, "You shouldn't make a movie about that! I don't care what your intent is!" Do you not see why I might have an issue with that?
"There are numerous reasons why one would object to someone's art.." Fine...except that you haven't seen the damn movie. That's a troublesome form of censorship. Granted, you say you aren't telling others how to feel about it...but you plainly feel that the movie shouldn't have been made, and you are expressing that. That's not far from censorship, emotion-wise, and that's not far from burning books you haven't actually read.
Extreme comparison, of course. And you're not really under attack here, you said, "I don't see why...," and I'm trying to explain my point of view. All in the spirit of discussion.  |
I know buddy, no big deal.
The only problem with all of this is that these filmmakers chose to make a movie on a controversial topic, I've chosen to speak against it (though I have not recommended a course of action for anyone else to take, nor have said that people that will go watch the movie are bastards or anything like that) and you're saying that this is close to censorship, but aren't you teetering on the same line by trying to correct me?
People have to make up their own minds about this. About whether they believe the movie should've been made, whether it was good, et cetera, et cetera. However -- just because a whole slew of critics come back and say "WOWOWOWOWOWOW movie great yeah heroes terrorists BOOM! 3.5 thumbs up!" doesn't mean that I'm going to rush out and see this movie. But at the same time, I don't expect people listening to me fuss to have my POV, or to make their decision based off of mine.