00002.txt: Notes
Chuck Klosterman: Watching a movie is not a tacit endorsement of the
person who made it. I suppose it would be if you believed films exist
solely as commodities whose only purpose is to earn revenue, but it's
hard to imagine a person who thinks like that grappling with this kind
of problem. You can engage with art in many ways simultaneously (both as
an autonomous fictional composition as as a work that exists in the
outside world). You unconsciously inject whatever you know (or suspect)
about a film's directory...into the film itself, effortlessly creating a
new meaning that does not ignore or exempt whatever issues surround it. 

Phillip Roth: "I wonder if I had called "Portnoy's Complaint" "The
Orgasm under Rapacious Capitalism", if I would thereby have earned the
favor of the Swedish Academy"

2014-03-16