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REMant 01/12/2010 02:05 PM Report
Sep 2008 must have been a shock for this guy. What was to be a satire had to become a film about redemption. How did the Depression-era lyric go? We can live on love? Probably just as well because as a satire it would certainly have been a flop. Nothing remotely funny about it. It's been done, and on prime time no less. After the reality shows it really is impossible to take such ppl seriously. Nowadays either ppl take offense or they don't care, just as re politics. Comedy depends on the cathartic effect of seeing our own foolishness. There has to be not only a receptivity to criticism, but also a desire to do better, neither of which seems to be in very great supply these days. Regarding redemption tho I have to ask whether anyone cares if The Donald, for instance, finds true love or not.
I looked at Ebert's top ten lists for 2009 and the only films that even approached being of interest to me were in the foreign (independent list). There is much too much topicality. As if one could cringe at Mafiosi, and laugh at gangstas, or weep over emigres and unwed mothers. What isn't topical is some sentimental perversion of the past, a rewriting of history from a politically correct perspective. Isn't it possible for ppl to write stuff about ordinary ppl, which ordinary ppl might find useful? Maybe then they will go see films and even laugh at them. The last time I think I laughed at a film was seeing Stan Laurel knock Mae Busch(?) into a bucket with a ladder.