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> "it's about the content, about the minute long close up shots of children 'grinding'" This is not the right criterion to evaluate a film's intent. Action mo

by pavlov 6y ago

> "it's about the content, about the minute long close up shots of children 'grinding'" This is not the right criterion to evaluate a film's intent. Action movies spend most of their screen time showing killing. Horror movies contain extended torture scenes. Gaspar Noé's "Irreversible" has a 10-minute extremely realistic rape scene, but it would be absurd to claim that it's a pro-rape film.

cutitout 6y ago
I said the intention is irrelevant. As I said in the bit you quoted, it's about the content.
- croes 6y ago
  And the content of Irreversible is a 10 minutes rape scene, so what's your point?
  - drdeca 6y ago
    It doesn’t seem obvious that such a scene has any value, so I’m not sure that the assumption that it does is a great foundation for an argument.
    - croes 6y ago
      For Irreversible it's the main cause of the following actions or better the preceding actions because the plot evolves in reverse.
      - drdeca 6y ago
        and therefore ... ?