sovay: (Claude Rains)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2013-08-13 04:41 am (UTC)

But I am not convinced that I want to spend an hour in that work every week, even if I think it's a very well-done world.

Understandable. I have no interest in watching Breaking Bad, despite years of critics telling me it's the most interesting thing on TV since The Sopranos, which I didn't watch, either. I don't need it in my head.

I don't find the gore of Hannibal (on the strength of one episode) shocking or delicious, except in the beautiful plating of Hannibal's meals, which [livejournal.com profile] rushthatspeaks tells me are designed by José Andrés for maximum cognitive dissonance, but I also think I don't respond to it in the same way as many viewers. There are certain kinds of violence that upset me very much to watch, but then there are lots that don't, which is why I was once very surprised to hear Rush tell me that most people do not perceive Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book (1986) as porn.

Good heavens, a philosophical disagreement between and 18-year-old young man and a 43-year-old poet lady. Who would have thought.

If they can argue philosophy, you're raising them right.

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