4/25/2005

As an add on to this post about Schussel's review of The Interpreter, I must point out to the semi-literate attacks on the movie from sites like Town Hall and the rest of the usual suspects. To criticize a movie or play on the basis of what you would have put into it or written is an excercise in narcissm. If you think you're so good, write a fucking movie, produce it, and see what happens when nobody goes to see it. The only way you can make a "truthful" movie is to make it cheap as hell, a real possibility these days with the Apple equipment. None of these Hollywood gazillionaires intends to make a movie that won't make the next hundred Ferrari payments, keep their girlfriends in private splendor somewhere, and allow them to pose for Holy Pictures at Hollywood parties. A movie is what it is and criticize it on that basis. Right wing critics are as awful as Left Wing critics. All the rest of us care about is whether it's good or bad.