interesting

I found last weeks films to be very interesting-interesting being used in that awkward sense where you say it because you have nothing else really positive to say-I still don't completely know how I feel about them. Flaming Creatures was a pretty disturbing film, and I can understand why it was banned. I think that there is virtue in creating something that no one will want to see or that is controversial, but there is a line where it gets to be too much, and I feel like Flaming Creatures crossed that line. Even if Jack Smith and his friends made this film in jest and laughed during its making, its depiction of rape and sexual violence was highly disturbing. I don't think sexuality needs to be taboo, but I do think it should be done in a little "classier" of a way. I liked Andy Warhol's "Blowjob" significantly more than "Flaming Creatures." I thought it was interesting in that, if we hadn't seen the title and thus assumed sexual connotations, we may not have had any idea of what was going on in the film.