balioc:You’re really going to reblog, without comment, the claim that there’s no emotion
balioc:You’re really going to reblog, without comment, the claim that there’s no emotional depth to The Phantom Menace? The contextual claim was that “people like it less”, even though technically it is a superior movie. And it is certainly true that “people complain about the Prequels a lot, often invoking technical details that turn out not to be true, or even if they were true are probably actually irrelevant.” So I supported that.The more critical theory response is “of course the Prequels have less ‘depth’, and that’s what makes them better.” The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it’s subject from it’s deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream. -- source link