The fountain, that movie with Wolverine

[funeralfetish]

You all need to get off your butts, and see The Fountain right now, like right now, put down the cheese doodles Sir, AND MOVE IT!! This was one of the greatest movies I have ever seen, and if you want my I crap oscars film critic review, I will gladly tell you. Despite what said "I crap oscars" film critics say, it is easy to understand, but very

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[funeralfetish]

"Film is really a communication of an idea", and "Art is a material form of an idea", this is what I have been taught in my film history classes, there is no 'Art for art's sake". I don't always agree with this statement, I believe a lot of films are made, just for entertainmet, and have no need for one to walk away with something. It was different though, we watched a lot of films which were, very political, and or showed a universal human reaction, movies like 400 blows, and, the Bicycle thief, and Metropolis, are required to view, because their were very communicative, extremely so. We also saw some surrealist films like Salvador Dali shorts, and repulsion, which were experimental, and abstract, and I certainly believed, they were "Art for art's sake", with no solid intention, however they had an intelligence that you don't see in many films today, because they weren't marketed for the stupid masses. Does Horror have an communication value? I do think yes, because the purpose of horror is to disturb you, films like the Exorcist,Jacob's ladder, and Audition certainly have a univeral value for their respected period, because most people consider these films to be truly horrific, which was it's communicative purpose. However many horror films, fail in that purpose, and it's mostly objective, except for the three I had mentioned, because most people shared the same feelings about them.

[archas]

Ahhh, from Un Chien Andalou to Exorcist in three lines...excellent! We'll have to sit down and chat about this sometime; I'm interested in the idea of horror as an end in itself, and/or horror as the "correct" medium for the communication of some idea...