What's Disgusting About The Dirty

There Seems To Be An Assumption That If You're Offended By Movie Brutality, You Are Somehow Playing Into The Hands Of The People Who Want Censorship. But This Would Deny Those Of Us Who Don't Believe In Censorship The Use Of The Only Counter-balance: The Freedom Of The Press To Say That There's Anything Conceivably Damaging In These Films - The Freedom To Analyze Their Implications. How Can People Go On Talking About The Dazzling Brilliance Of Movies And Not Notice That The Directors Are Sucking Up To The Thugs In The Audience?

It's Sometimes Discouraging To See All Of A Director's Movies, Because There's So Much Repetition. The Auteurists Took This To Be A Sign Of A Director's Artistry, That You Could Recognize His Movies. But It Can Also Be A Sign That He's A Hack.

Tasteful And Colossal Are - In Movies, At Least - Basically Antipathetic.

Being Creative Is Having Something To Sell, Or Knowing How To Sell Something, Or Having Sold Something. It Has Taken Over What We Used To Mean By Being "wised Up" Knowing The Tricks, The Shortcuts.

An Avidity For More Is Built Into The Love Of Movies. Something Else Is Built In: You Have To Be Open To The Idea Of Getting Drunk On Movies. (being Able To Talk About Movies With Someone -- To Share The Giddy High Excitement You Feel -- Is Enough For A Friendship.