[Ads-l] complicit

[Wilson Gray]

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

Also the term used for a popular genre of um-cinema.

On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 7:39 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
>
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > '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
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> >> truth."
> >> >
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> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> -Wilson
> >> -----
> >> 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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> >
> >
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
> >
>
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
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>


-- 
-Wilson
-----
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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