Important Stuff -- Or Not: Saw a movie...found it offensive

Monday, May 18, 2009

Saw a movie...found it offensive

I watched The Reader on pay per view this weekend. Kate Winslet won the Oscar for this one. I found it offensive. It wasn't offensive because of the sex scenes. Actually the sex was integral to the storyline between the 18 year old boy and the 36 year old woman...graphic but not offensive...it had a point. What was offensive was how this story could possibly be seen as an ethical dilemma worthy to be contemplated. And I hated being made to empathize with Kate's character as a former Nazi death camp guard....because I never did empathize. So she has this big secret? What could it be? Well it certainly was not worth what she did to keep it hidden. She was a predator...she preyed on the weakness of young boy character and she preyed on the female victims in the concentration camp for her own benefit...to hide her own insecurities and weaknesses...which can be seen as nothing more than arrogance of the most disgusting kind. She used the boy and the victims in the camps to teach her to read...and for this we make a movie and thank the movie for being such a great think piece...is that what Holocaust movies have become? That's why I was offended. I hope the writer did not think this woman's actions were up for serious debate as to whether someone else might have done the same? UHHH...YEAH most people would have done differently. Unbelievable. Of course because of people like her...Hitler road in...got elected and got away with it...that happens in a world without absolutes. I know my old ethics teacher would have made us watch this movie as THE example of situational ethics...which is a dead theory now...WHY? because it doesn't work. As soon as it ended, I bought Marley and Me on Pay Per View...to make up for this bad choice.

5 comments:

Mark said...: My wife refused to watch Marley and Me, because she heard it had a sad ending. She loves dogs.; 7:32 AM
Tonto said...: Mark - its a GREAT movie...more like the story of my life right now as far as the middle section goes.

Its about marriage and work and kids and the dog you get at the beginning of marriage who is in the background the whole time its all going on.

Its really funny and cute but of course we know the life expectancy of a lab is only about 13 years so that is about as far as the movie goes.

Skip the ending but watch it...really worth it.; 12:55 PM
Mark said...: I watched it. While my wife was in the other room. She had a golden retriever that lived 17 years. She still misses her.

Incidentally, we have two dogs now. A Pug and a Toy Poodle

When I got her the Toy Poodle she nearly killed it trying to put the batteries in... Bada boom!; 1:13 PM
Mark said...: Watch "The Cheaters" yet?; 1:13 PM
Tonto said...: LOL! Mark. Poodles are great I have a black mini and white mini poodle. I got them for my elderly paretns.

Never had a small dog before. Love it. I know men make fun of poodles but you have to admit they are the smartest dogs I have ever seen. No one they can work in circuses.

Glad you watched it. I thought it was good. I have had more days though where I have wanted to give away my husband more than the dog!

No I don't have the Cheaters yet but I was sent an emial that it has been shipped and now I am waiting for it. Can't wait to see it.; 2:17 PM

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2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

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11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

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Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.