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  • I agree wholeheartedly with all you have said. It is especially frustrating when someone else’s emotions prime me to feel that emotion overwhelmingly when the next slightly justifiable situation occurs.

    For example, I had a friend who was going through the end of a terrible marriage and we talked about it a lot. She would leave, and then the next thing that came out of someone else’s mouth would often make me snap at them, which would confuse them. I would feel justified in my anger at the time because it felt so real, but later realize it was just carry over from my conversation with my friend.

    Luckily, she is divorced now and doing great.




  • Yeah, I do have trouble sometimes when it comes to those accused of sexual crimes… Cosby is especially difficult because he portrayed himself as a role model to such a degree. Can’t really do Allen, either, but he was never my type of filmmaker. They both just come off as hideous hypocrites and gross in their products now. I can’t even bring myself to call their doings art anymore, really. But they made themselves the center of the work in many cases, so it is more difficult to ignore than what some rock bands have gotten up to. I know Page and Plant did some fucked up things, and thus I dislike them, but I can’t not listen to the music they created. It’s too fundamental to me.


  • Flummoxed@lemmy.worldOPtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldCassavetes?
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    5 months ago

    Appreciate that perspective: it really does boil down to art vs. artist. I tend to err toward keeping the bathwater and throwing the baby out.

    The artist can be speratated from the work and the work can be appreciated without understanding the author’s intent.

    But is there a line where the artist overshadows the art? Is that based on our personal morals?

    Edit: I know my adjectives vs. adverbs, really!