2 brief points
1.
The recent _PH_ debate has raised many important
issues, but as often happens here the discussion (with
more than a suggestion of a first-year undergraduate
coffee-table discussion) has failed to get off the
starting-blocks.
Do we really have to engage in simplistic
first-principles debate (is 'I like' equal to 'it was
good' etc)?
That Hollywood garbage like _PH_ can raise many
important issues (socio-political, aesthetic, gender,
philosophic etc) while remaining risible as a work of
cinema-art is surely fairly self-evident to anyone but
the ghost of FR Leavis.
2.
The suggestion that Fili's mails are difficult to
understand indicates a lack of imagination on the side
of the (albeit polite) critic rather than the
criticized - Fili brings a breath of fresh air to
these sometimes less-than-scintillating discussions
with an original, candid, passionate and unique style,
always unexpected and incisive.
T Z
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