thread: 2007-03-19 : Tonight we dine
On 2007-03-20, Moreno R. wrote:
Vincent, you misunderstood my (rather criptic, I admit) fahrenheit 451 comment. I don't see anybody here calling for the burning of books (or comic books, or movies). I was talking about the fact that it's simply not possible to write (or film) anything without hurting somebody's feeling or values.
In fahrenheit 451, this caused the burning of all books, to "protect the people" from this. In the real world, I think it simply caused a lot of efforts to produce movies (or books) without saying... anything. 2 hours long balloons of hot air. To avoid making waves.
(While we are on the subject of movies from comic book, I would love to talk about the changes in Spider-Man made in the movies to exorcise all the society criticism present in the Lee-Ditko stories, but I don't want to derail the discussion)
I don't know, I certainly don't want to condone racist propaganda, or to tell people that they should shut up. Centainly they have every right to tell their opinion, or to be enraged, or to laugh about somthing foolish. But, at the same time, I see a lot of searching for "something that could hurt someone's feelings" to criticize in the threads about the movie in the net, as if it was something bad by itself and not a normal effect of having different opinion. I don't know where is the boundary between these two things, and I aknowledge the fact that I probably are more sensitive to some issues and less to others, so what it's hurtful to another person is almost nothing for me (and the other way around for other things). So I don't want to say people how they should react, but at the same time I see a disproportionate amount of reaction, even searching to force some square metaphore in un round film to be able to be more annoyed. (I don't know if these rambling are making some kind of sense or not. There's is the problem of writing in another language, as always, but the fact that I am conflicted to the issue and believe contradictory things don't help to lessen the confusion, too)
This is the impression I got reading the threads about the movie in a lot of places (for example, rpg.net, story-games, and some movies forums), not only in your blog. And your blog until now had the most equilibrate comments of the lot. So why I am telling this here, and not there? Because I wanted to say this where there were equilibrate people, not somewhere where I would be put at the stake by a lot of angry people. Sorry if it came out as I was singling out people here as would-be censors or something like that
