Thursday, May 27, 2010

Fuck

Fuck is a documentary that's sort of about the history of the word, sort of about the use of it in various areas of culture and whathaveyou, but mostly it's a celebration of fuck and, to a lesser extent, all profanity.
And I can't figure out why they even bothered to interview some of the people they did. There was this one conservative guy with a giant head who kept going on and on about protecting children. He seriously pissed me off. Fuck that guy.
But if you're making a documentary that's celebrating profanity, why bother interviewing people who disagree with you? You're obviously not trying to be objective, because the point of your movie is "fuck is a wonderful word!" so the idea of interviewing people like Pat Boone and Judith Martin and Giant Head Guy kind of detract from your "yay, fuck!" argument.
And while I'm on the subject, why would people like Pat Boone and Judith Martin and Giant Head Guy, who all had nothing but negative things to say about profanity, agree to be interviewed for a movie called Fuck, a movie whose title they can't even bring themselves to say? It makes no fucking sense!
I really enjoyed the movie and it was a fuck of a lot more informative than a person might think. It was mostly just entertaining, though.
The same studio released The Aristocrats, which is a movie whose appeal I didn't get. It wasn't that I was offended by it; it was that I didn't understand what was supposed to be funny about it. "Here's a bunch of comedians telling variations on an over the top, gross out joke." So? Who fucking cares? The joke isn't funny and neither is your fucking movie.
I really liked Fuck, though. It was funnier and far more interesting than The Aristocrats.

End of fucking line.
-Sally

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