[Ads-l] complicit

[Jonathan Lighter]

So, of course, there's "complicity," too:' shameful aesthetic or
emotional involvement.'

>From a review of a well-made antiwar movie that contains some shocking
scenes:

2010
http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2010/09/10/lebanon_an_insiders_view_of_the_casualties_of_war/
  :The
tank’s crewmen are less combatants than voyeurs, and we’re seduced into a
similar position of bearing witness to atrocities and wondering at our own
complicity.

Note too the popular filck-crit term, "voyeur":  'one who watches (any sort
of human behavior) with a shameful interest.'

(And it may be that the "shameful" element in such contexts is already
being lost.)

JL

On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 7:30 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:49 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One can only shake one's head - or  should that be "_their_ head"? - in
>> sorrow.
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>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
>> >
>> wrote:
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>> > 'Shamefully involved in any way'
>> >
>> > Newsweek's review of the drone-war film _Good Kill_ (May 15, 2015)
>> asserts
>> > that "Through prolonged close-ups on his computer screens, the audience
>> is
>> > complicit, forced to watch as his strikes claim lives."
>> >
>> > JL
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> -Mark Twain
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