I was just looking at an ad for the new movie, Shutter. The catch phrase at the bottom of the ad said: "The most terrifying images are the ones that are real."
Gee, no kidding? Man, I thought that pointilliste watercolor of a bear eating a man was SO much more frightening than a videotape of the same thing!
Has our society truly hit the rock bottom of banality? Even more ironic and stupid, of course, is the fact that Shutter is a *movie* and nothing depicted in it is real...
*sigh*
And while that crap clogs the collective cloaca of movie theaters, why can’t the Mira Mesa theater host In Bruges? Looks like I have to go to Hillcrest to see it.
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This reminds me of the time Larry Flint said he was going to publish the most obscene picture ever taken in the next issue of his Hustler Magazine. There were protests from religious groups who, imagining a sexually explicit act of some obscure bestiality, tried to get the magazine banned. When the next issue came out, the picture in question was a pile of Vietnamese war dead, all children.
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