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Is This Allowed?

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Thomson, D. (2019). Is This Allowed?. In Thomson, D. Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire. Knopf, pp. 46-57

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We are being allowed to see something that ought to be forbidden. Instead, it captivates us. Movies are the industrialization of murder and orgy as regular human fantasies. There has always been a shadow of censorship or control, and it adds to the air of an illicit thrill coming our way. Though lifelike, the medium is a ticket to transcend our humble circumstances. We say we believe in fidelity in our life, but on screens for decades we enjoyed different men and women, week after week. Faithfulness and promiscuity rattled in the same head, like dice being shaken.

he's weirdly staid when he ought to be poetic but i do like this

—p.47 by David Thomson 11 months, 4 weeks ago

We are being allowed to see something that ought to be forbidden. Instead, it captivates us. Movies are the industrialization of murder and orgy as regular human fantasies. There has always been a shadow of censorship or control, and it adds to the air of an illicit thrill coming our way. Though lifelike, the medium is a ticket to transcend our humble circumstances. We say we believe in fidelity in our life, but on screens for decades we enjoyed different men and women, week after week. Faithfulness and promiscuity rattled in the same head, like dice being shaken.

he's weirdly staid when he ought to be poetic but i do like this

—p.47 by David Thomson 11 months, 4 weeks ago