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I'm not having it both ways

Posted by Troy (A) on January 21, 2004 at 08:08:18

In Reply to: You can't have it both ways posted by J on January 20, 2004 at 13:17:29:

Cosmetic means "Something superficial that is used to cover a deficiency or defect". And that's what film is really about about, creating an artificial, controlled world from the real one.

So what deficiency or defect is covered in this film? Artificial, yes. Covering a deficiency or defect, I say no.

Don't be so literal. It can be as simple as not pointing the camera into the sun and putting it on a tripod to avoid movement. Yeah, I know, maybe I'm borderline here. What I really mean to say is that movies create a conscious esthetic, whether pretty or, in this case, ugly, and are therefore inherently cosmetic.

If it's really bad in real life, you're not going to cut to a flashback love scene or have a secondary character be inserted for comic relief. Virtually ALL films are sugar coated in this way.

Yeah, like the guy trying to have sex with the chicken or jerking off to impregnate the woman who's been kidnapped & sedated. I say this is one example of an exception to yr rule. If you're going to argue otherwise I'd like to hear a better explanation.

Well, if you don't see that as comic relief . . . you scare the hell outta me. No, it's not sugar coated in the way a Shirley Temple movie is. But in it's own way, PF's outrageous comedy is offset my Divine's saccharine love of his/her mon, Edie and her son. Sarcasm? Then Waters in consciously making fun of the sugar coating in movies, ergo, it IS sugar coated to the extreme . . . intentionally done to make you roll your eyes.

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