Subject: Re: A Perfect Day for German Poetry
From: PAUL KENNEDY (Paul_Kennedy@CBC.CA)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 13:22:12 GMT
Wow!
I hardly know where to begin. Scottie's denunciation of the Cuckoo's
Nest was deeply moving, coming whence it came, and delivered with such
passion.
It's so easy for simple lay folk, like myself, to ignore the very
"real" consequences that a work of art can often have.... Should Moby
Dick be blamed for any resurgence (or decline) in mid-19th-century
Massachusetts whaling? Should JDS be blamed for any suicides by
super-sensitive-mythopoetic seers in the years since S:aI was published?
(Let alone Mark Chapman....)
I think not, although it's interesting to see Scottie defending
virtually proto-Marxist arguments for the social responsibility of art.
(Is "Awakenings" the only good film about shrinks?)
Cheers,
Paul
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