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Old 06-19-2009, 09:05 AM
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If you're implying as to whether or not we need to see actual rape scenes in films, I say no. Well, let's put it like this, I'm not going to watch your fucking film. I've had the experience personally, and I don't need to watch reinacted on screne.

Here's the thing about art: If it's actually good art it will carry itself. This is possibly the hardest intellectual arguemnt in the world, because everyone has a different take on what art actually *is*. Is a bowl of shit a work of genius or is it just a bowl of shit? A man raping a woman (or even vice versa) will never be art to me, and that's probably because it's happened to me twice. So it's a very personal level. Hell, a solid red canvass isn't art to me, but that's me.

So now I have to tell you what is art to me and contradict myself, right? Art should actually take me places that I've never been, make me see worlds that I've never seen. Art should take me outside of myself. Art should also make me explore myself, but art shouldn't violate me. It shouldn't violate anyone. If you say that a piece of art violated you, and you're happy about it, then that piece of art didn't violate you. It fucked you good and hard, but it didn't violate you.

Most people don't know the definition of violation until it really happens to them.
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