Posted on 09/13/2010 8:03:42 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Just stop and think for a moment and the stupidity of the question will stare you in the face. “Is it art or is it porn?” The Daily Beast asks about a 5-year-old film showing at the Los Angeles Downtown Film Festival.
It’s a bit like asking “Is it a ham sandwich or a tricycle?”
The movie in question is “Destricted,” a collection of seven, sexually-explicit, short films by various arthouse filmmakers.
I’ve not only seen the film but I own it. I got it cheap years ago as an import DVD. (Cinematic obsessive that I used to be — what seems like a lifetime ago — I acquired an import DVD player that would allow me to play titles from all over the world.) Why’d I pick up “Destricted”? Because two of the directors are favorites of mine. First, there’s Larry Clark — director of “Kids,” “Another Day in Paradise,” “Bully,” and “Ken Park.” Second, there’s Gaspar Noe — French filmmaker behind “I Stand Alone” and “Irreversible.” The six films of theirs that I named are all fantastic, transgressive works and emotionally-engaging dramas which seriously explore human evil and self-destruction.
Artistic work of that level of seriousness is not what Clark and Noe — or the other filmmakers — brought to “Destricted.”
I can say with some confidence that the film is porn. Many of the shorts are made up of re-spliced clips of actual, self-confessed pornographic movies. Others are no different than porn movies except they’re more professionally shot. Clark literally could have shot his film for a pornographic website. All his short — the pretentiously-titled “Impaled” — features is several 20-something males being interviewed about their porn habits before one of them is filmed actually having sex with a porn star.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...
This article is apropos of ........what?
“There is meaning in the non-pornographic interviews with the young men where they reveal how their porn addictions have warped their ability to have normal, functioning relationships and sexual experiences.”
Pornography promotes a hedonistic lifestyle that is often highly addictive, harmful to marriages and influences anti-social and sometimes criminal behavior. In the eyes of most women pornography is degrading and highly offensive.
30 years of data connects porn with child molestation
10/2/2009
Morality in Media (MIM) has posted a report online showing a relationship between adult pornography and child molestation.
The report covers various sources — news articles, court cases, studies, books, and congressional testimony — published from 1980 to present. Among their findings — child molesters use adult porn to “groom” their victims; many perpetrators progress from viewing adult porn to viewing child porn; and children imitate with other children the behavior they view in adult porn.
MIM spokesman Bob Peters tells OneNewsNow he hopes to awaken people who are really earnest in their efforts to curb sexual exploitation of children, but who turn their backs on the adult pornography problem.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=705570
“transgressive works?”
As in auto-didactic-trans-cognitive-prefabs?
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