Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Ummm?

Eh... Well I guess you could say the films from last Thursday were interesting. But I'd rather just simply say I was disturbed by them. After discussing them briefly on Tuesday I decided to reevaluate my view on them. And while I'm still very disturbed, I think Flaming Creatures and Blow Job had another purpose. Flaming Creatures wished to break the boundaries of Hollywood filmmaking just like many of its avant-garde predecessors. It took sexuality to its limit through the use of rape and transgenders disrupting the society it was released into. I'm not sure how to feel about the banning of the film, because on one hand it was vulgar and possibly on the border of pornography but I don't see how it went beyond a person's write for freedom of speech.

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