Comments on: The Pornography Of Nostalgia http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/08/the-pornography-of-nostalgia/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: FreakyTrigger » Indie-nesia? http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/08/the-pornography-of-nostalgia/#comment-28089 FreakyTrigger » Indie-nesia? Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:13:44 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/08/the-pornography-of-nostalgia/#comment-28089 [...] I don’t usually do the techie “isn’t Wordpress great” articles, but of course a well run site often comes with other whizz-bangs and flashes. And one of the things Alan has bolted on is a selection of statistics about the site. What refers, what is read and of course the competition to have highly read articles (as per chart on the left) is vicious. There is reason for many of the words used in my Pornography of Nostalgia article, and I will beat you Tom Ewing and your popular Popular. [...] [...] I don’t usually do the techie “isn’t Wordpress great” articles, but of course a well run site often comes with other whizz-bangs and flashes. And one of the things Alan has bolted on is a selection of statistics about the site. What refers, what is read and of course the competition to have highly read articles (as per chart on the left) is vicious. There is reason for many of the words used in my Pornography of Nostalgia article, and I will beat you Tom Ewing and your popular Popular. [...]

]]> By: the pinefox http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/08/the-pornography-of-nostalgia/#comment-28035 the pinefox Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:19:49 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/08/the-pornography-of-nostalgia/#comment-28035 Hey, Doc Baran - good piece. I went to see the picture 2 days ago and it didn't really live up to expectations. I thought it would be somehow sophisticated - but it wasn't really. The utter ingenuousness of the central character didn't work at all. She had this traumatic background - yet then, whenever a strange man asked her to do something, she'd grin and say, weeell, why *nat*? In other words, there was no sense of how sexuality must have already become a dangerous area for her - how she must already have understood that sexuality can involve power and pain. Also, supporting characters, like her sudden boyfriend, were way too sketchy. And as you say, its picture of this seedy world didn't add up. It didn't seem to want to point out the exploitation and nastiness that is doubtless inherent in that world. So, well done, doc Baran! Hey, Doc Baran - good piece.

I went to see the picture 2 days ago and it didn’t really live up to expectations. I thought it would be somehow sophisticated - but it wasn’t really. The utter ingenuousness of the central character didn’t work at all. She had this traumatic background - yet then, whenever a strange man asked her to do something, she’d grin and say, weeell, why *nat*? In other words, there was no sense of how sexuality must have already become a dangerous area for her - how she must already have understood that sexuality can involve power and pain.

Also, supporting characters, like her sudden boyfriend, were way too sketchy. And as you say, its picture of this seedy world didn’t add up. It didn’t seem to want to point out the exploitation and nastiness that is doubtless inherent in that world.

So, well done, doc Baran!

]]>