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Sorry, not reading any more film or TV essays that confuse depiction with endorsement and think the main job of popular culture is to teach us the correct way to live. That’s what Sunday school is for.
Take that link to that bad film take somewhere else, not interested, the door is locked and the steel gate is down, nobody home, new phone who this
And please don’t participate in this kind of thing by talking about it on here, you only encourage them, seriously, you know how this works – it’s “this milk is spoiled, here, taste it” click farming
No no no no no we are done, sorry, no more, no mas, not participating in this ritual, covering my ears and skipping along through the graveyard, thank you very much, la la la la la
If this is where we are headed as a culture, I’ll just stay right here and go down with the motherfucking ship, thanks, see you all on the other side, popping in my DVD of the Ian McKellen Richard III now, I hope the power holds out till the ending because it’s fucking awesome
It’s an ongoing dialogue, obviously, *really obviously* – art becomes dated, a once-accepted pov becomes offensive. *I’m not talking about that.* Depiction versus endorsement is the issue. Showing problematic behavior is not itself problematic. It’s all about how it’s presented!
I mean really, can we all just be adults? Can we let adults have entertainment for adults who can deal with complication and contradiction and hold more than one thought at the same time? And leave the moral lesson stuff to children? What? We can’t? All right, fuck it. I tried.
