[MacDV] Re: The Way Of The Master

[James Asherman]

On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 03:22  PM, illovox at comcast.net wrote:

> on 1/30/04 12:08 PM, James Asherman at jimash at optonline.net wrote:
>
>>>> \and enhanced w/ FCP.  What a look!
>>>
>>> Been where?
>> Bad places
>
> Really?  Let's hear!

Ok wise ass. Harlem shooting galleries.

>
>>> Done what?
>> Dangerous things

What you do in a Harlem shooting gallery. Shot up with the real junkies.
Call it  experimentation. Call it gettting the real experience. Call it 
youthful indiscretion cause I drove too.

>
> Let's hear!  :)
>
>>> RFAD was genius.  You've been to genius before and
>>> done genius before?
>> Actually yes but that wasn't the point. Only that I find such movies
>> (however excellent) depressing.
>
> No shock there, since that was part of the movie's intention--to be
> depressing.  The key to it's genius was that it was so effective that 
> many
> who watched it felt as if they had gone through a Heroin lifestyle 
> without
> having to actually do Heroin.  More so, it was depressing because DA 
> still
> made us care about these people despite their downward trajectories.  
> Now,
> will he do the same for Batman Year One is another question.  Will I 
> feel
> like I was an orphaned crazy man vigilante without actually becoming 
> one?
>
> Few escaped RFAD's clutches upon viewing.  That you found it depressing
> means nothing.  How you felt about becoming depressed...different 
> story.
> You didn't like it.  Cool.  You've "been there, done that."  I did 
> enjoy it,
> because I have not experienced such overwhelming loss and appreciated a
> window into the suffering of others.  It gave me a sense of sympathy.
>