Must See
[See discussion under “My Diary” of June 25, 2014]
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Nobody could be in favor of Victorian hypocrisy anymore. So why do we continue to bash it — and congratulate ourselves for being superior?
An occasionally amusing parable of guilt and forgiveness whose setting in small-town America, like the prejudices of its author, does it no favors
A bit of magical realism that is too heavy on the magic and too light on the realism
In the Realm of the Senses is a Japanese film made twenty years ago by Nagisa Oshima. At the time it was considered shocking even by the relaxed standards of the day and it was seized by U.S. Customs Agents. What innocent times they seem! Nowadays we aren’t so much more depraved than people were…
Suddenly things in the popular culture begin to seem much, much worse than we had thought them. And we hadn’t thought they were good.
