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In Reply to: but bad for Cannes credibility posted by DWPC on May 25, 2004 at 10:52:18:
but if Mr. Moore won an Oscar last year I would think that most people consider him a filmaker regardless of his politics.Is any bodt here seen the movie yet?
RubenSan Francisco, California
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I've seen Moore's previous works, and found them tedious and contrived to the extent that they diminished his message. He's like the portraitists of the classical period who guaranteed sales by knowing what patrons want and ensuring that's what they're presented. Moore and his Cannes award are exemplary of what I think is the great problem of art since WWII; its dominance by "artists" who's skills in self-promotion greatly exceed their talent to express sentiment indirectly; by subtlety, allegory and analogy. There's little art to wielding a bludgeon.To me, there is no more artistic merit in a film that simply strings together manipulated segments of news clips and other mostly third party images under a narration expressly intended to inflame emotion. (I think that might also define propaganda.) The Cannes Jury is supposed to maintain the sense of film as art of merit that Hollywood long ago abandoned in favor of populism and profit. Instead, they sold out to politics.
***but if Mr. Moore won an Oscar last year I would think that most people consider him a filmaker regardless of his politics.How's that? You are not suggesting Hollywood is a politics-free zone? By all indications it is rabbidly and irrationally liberal, so Moore's film would be right up its alley.
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