Goodness, yes! I feel like this about the film Brazil. It's a great film that makes me really really uncomfortable. Emotional reactions differ so much, but we tend, I think, to let a subsetof opinions dominate -- the critics and the literati etc. Which devalues anything that doesn't hit their particular buttons in the 'right' way. The classic example of how this damages and hides value in other areas is romance -- romance is suspect because or sexism and classism and this in turn trains us to question our own tastes, and see ourselves as lesser in some ways. But: it seems to me that the film Bridesmaids, say, says asmuch about friendships between women and the pressures placed on them by differences oin wealth and class as any approved art film (Hannah and Her Sisters, maybe). Additionally, unlike many many canon works, Bridesmaids is by a woman about women and for women.
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Emotional reactions differ so much, but we tend, I think, to let a subsetof opinions dominate -- the critics and the literati etc. Which devalues anything that doesn't hit their particular buttons in the 'right' way. The classic example of how this damages and hides value in other areas is romance -- romance is suspect because or sexism and classism and this in turn trains us to question our own tastes, and see ourselves as lesser in some ways. But: it seems to me that the film Bridesmaids, say, says asmuch about friendships between women and the pressures placed on them by differences oin wealth and class as any approved art film (Hannah and Her Sisters, maybe). Additionally, unlike many many canon works, Bridesmaids is by a woman about women and for women.