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Horrible video in my opinion. Essentially the author demands that works of art put on display a particular moral message he agrees with. i.e. that characters ne
by Barrin92 5y ago
Horrible video in my opinion. Essentially the author demands that works of art put on display a particular moral message he agrees with. i.e. that characters need to thrive through hard work, determination, kind of "American Dream - the movie" or something.
But art is not in the business of selling didactic moral lessons, enforcing Protestant work ethics or what else have you. Art should primarily stand on artistic merits. Most of the movies in the video fail on that front as well but not because they don't engage in teaching folk morality.
Paraphrasing the end of the video: "movies teach sketchy life lessons, like prioritizing one's own happiness over other people's freedom[...]"
From an artistic standpoint there is nothing at all wrong with this, in fact putting a character like this into a framing of a hero makes for a significantly more interesting premise than much else I've seen in the cinema.