Re: poetic?

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, [email protected] wrote:
> I find such bluster tiring and useless.  Also not helpful to any kind of 
> constructive discussion of a film.  I don't trust people who's 
> condemnation of a film falls solely upon their Moral Superiority.

Well, yeah, the fact that the person in question is something of a typical 
Evangelical Moralist in this regard is precisely why I wouldn't have 
recommended the film to him.  I'm kind of surprised that his "good 
friends" aren't attuned to this side of him, but anyhoo.

Incidentally, I don't particularly mind sensitivity to moral issues in 
film -- how could I? -- but I think it is possible to get on a moral (or 
at least dogmatic) high horse about things that really shouldn't be 
high-horsed like that.  I don't believe, for example, that superb films 
need an "excuse" for existing simply because they happen to be remakes. 
Personally, I'm *grateful* for remakes that draw attention to their source 
material and arguably improve on it, and I thought "gratitude" was 
supposed to be one of this guy's major themes.  But anyhoo.

> "I felt sick" requires some real qualifiers... I get why a film such as 
> Funny Games gets under a person's skin in that way... not so much with 
> Karen-Allen.

I still haven't seen *either* version of Funny Games, if you can believe 
it.  But I can understand why some people might not care for Karen-Allen. 
It *does* "push the envelope" in ways that can seem kind of poser-ish.

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