These are different things
Mar. 10th, 2025 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dhampyresaI wish there was a shorter way to convey "I said I hated it, not that it was bad".
For example, I hated watching the movie Flow. I hated it so much it dealt me actual literal physical damage.
The main character is a cat who spends what feels like the entire movie being scared and/or unhappy. There are also multiple scenes of characters having their cherished possessions get lost and/or destroyed.
I never was not digging my nails into my arm from stress. The marks didn't fade for over 24 hours. Actual literal physical damage.
It is, however, a good movie. Part of why I hated it was how good it was, even. The little kitty is so little and so kitty ;_;
This obviously works in reverse, where me liking something doesn't mean it isn't bad. Though no example comes to mind at present, which either means I have never watched a single movie nor read a single book in my entire life or that I am less critical of things I enjoy. (To be honest I would rather have bad taste and enjoy things than the opposite.)
Anyway, I would like a concise way to convey the above, since it appears yo be a difficult concept for many people to grasp. Something as pithy as "depiction isn't endorsement". "Enjoyment is not quality", maybe?
For example, I hated watching the movie Flow. I hated it so much it dealt me actual literal physical damage.
The main character is a cat who spends what feels like the entire movie being scared and/or unhappy. There are also multiple scenes of characters having their cherished possessions get lost and/or destroyed.
I never was not digging my nails into my arm from stress. The marks didn't fade for over 24 hours. Actual literal physical damage.
It is, however, a good movie. Part of why I hated it was how good it was, even. The little kitty is so little and so kitty ;_;
This obviously works in reverse, where me liking something doesn't mean it isn't bad. Though no example comes to mind at present, which either means I have never watched a single movie nor read a single book in my entire life or that I am less critical of things I enjoy. (To be honest I would rather have bad taste and enjoy things than the opposite.)
Anyway, I would like a concise way to convey the above, since it appears yo be a difficult concept for many people to grasp. Something as pithy as "depiction isn't endorsement". "Enjoyment is not quality", maybe?
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Date: 2025-03-11 02:10 am (UTC)I applaud your desire for concision. :) I might say, "So well made I couldn't enjoy it" but that would probably also be taken as a topic sentence. OTOH many of the things I put in that category I want people to know about so I'd probably just babble my explanation anyway (for example, I think Twelve Years A Slave should be shown in high school curricula across the US and I will never ever watch it again, for the same reasons.)