Sarah,
Some things easily jolt me from the fictional dream, or even prevent me from
entering. So while I often see parts of these films later on TV, they aren't
"entertaining" to me - they aren_t what I personally go to see a movie for.
However, I do have the objectivity to review movies without personal bias,
realizing that others enjoy things that I don_t. For example, _In Cold
Blood_ and _The Deer Hunter_ are not stories that everyone would enjoy, but
they are moving stories. Even though both made me a bit uncomfortable at
times, I liked both. I just don't bother to go see most fantasies about
taking high risk for greed.
- Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Barmak" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: audiences (was RE: oceans 11)
> Scott,
> Again, so many movies with great elements of suspense that do depend on at
> least partial identification with the cirminal(s) in question, using the
> criminal's p.o.v. while not necessarily making him/her sympathetic. Noir
> like Kubrick's amazing _The Killing_ comes to mind, as well as more recent
> _the Usual Suspects_. These films mainly show simple moral ambiguity about
> what's going on, whether the bad guys "get away with it" or not. Some do
> strive to make them look more attractive than the rest of the "moral"world
> bent against them, which was what most people found objectionable about
> _Natural Born Killers_, whereas other people found it easy to suspend
moral
> triggers for two hours and slip into a world of fantasy (which in this
case
> was more like a higher level of reality, like other absurdist or satiric
> fantasies).
>
> Sarah
>
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