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What Hollywood will never understand

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on February 9, 2004 at 11:34:57

I wrote that title, and then thought - perhaps it is misplaced, as given our discussion below, it is obvious Hollywood simply doesn't WANT to understand, or... understands but chooses to ignore it, as its goal is different.

I am talking here about the subject matter in the typical Hollywood film, and how it differentiates it from the - it appears like it - the rest of the world.

I am still under the quiet spell of Autumn Spring - a warm and human Czech film, that is perhaps as different from your typical Hollywood fare as Joe Stalin was from Jimmy Carter.

It seems to me that in that part of the world - and I mean Eastern Europe perhaps even more than the Western one - the interest in the subject that I always find fascinating - the humans with their joys and sufferings - is still very much alive, while here, at Hollywood, it has been completely replaced with the monsters and deviants.

Case in point: a few days back I believe Tin suggested that the Hollywood film with a completely adolescent sounding title Monster was something special.

My reaction - sorry, but I am not going to waste my time and money watching yet another story of a serial killer.

There is something quite degrading in the American fascination with mass murderers, serial killers, morons (John Belushi and the warshipers of his church), deviants of all kinds, anti-social idiots, prostitutes-gone-housewives, and all other sorts of scum, human trash, refuse, garbage... enter your favorite word of disgust here.

Put simply, I am not going to watch the Monster, no matter how "unrecognizable" the actress is. I simply say ho-hum.

So I will sit here, remebering the HUMAN faces of people in the yesterday's film, and the ones in the Mondays in the Sun, disenchanted, yet still HUMAN... and the many before them... and the many yet to come, but I shall draw my line around my home and shall not let scum penetrate it.

Much has been said recently here about the degradation of Hollywood. Most of it true. And the fundamental cause of it all is the love afair with garbage.

The HUMAN garbage.

So I am looking forward to the Kurosawa script - I know he never stopped to the human garbage level. I will watch that Finnish Kukushka - about a woman caught in the war, giving the shelter to a Soviet and a Finnish soldiers - and I will expect those characters to behave like the HUMANS do... like you and I, not like yet another serial killer.

Garbage breeds garbage... the garbage subject is bound to produce nothing but garbage "art" after a while, and we have seen plenty of it... all flowing downhill from Hollywood.

It appears that the Western Europe is caugh half way between the ugliness of Hollywood and the still relative pure waters of the Eastern one.

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