What art polarizes us?

This could be in entertainment, politics or religion. It's a subject from another movie forum but one that asks an even bigger question than all those subjects combined.

Which art polarizes us? The thread title is prejudicial. We're looking at movie titles with opinions about them grouped at the extremes. So is that polarization caused by the film or a reflection of it? I'm pretty sure it's some of both, probably even mostly the latter, but labeling them polarizing suggests that the latter aren't to be considered....rather, in fact, they should be ignored.

If a film promotes the Truth, how is it a polarizing film, unless the Truth polarizes us? Is The Help polarizing, or Inherit the Wind? Only if one side supports the lie.

I think that probably everything or at least most things polarize us as our feelings tend to sway to one side of the spectrum.

I don't know about movies, but, this is the kind of art that tears us apart... well... it tore 100 or so people apart.

Yeah, but that's the point, they're already on their own sides for the most part. Making accusations of polarization is mostly hokum.




I don't think that's even art. More like inflammatory, in-your-face s***--to people who are begging for it.

Cartoons are a form of art in my opinion. I would call it edgy or controversial "art" as unlike Piss Christ, it was truly a critique of of a verbotten moral code (which is the kind of crap the 'creator' of Piss Christ claimed for his 'art' ).

what do you call a guy hanging on a wall with no arms or legs?

art.

Jesus?

noooo, i'm willi

Oh.

Ooops.

All art polarises us, that's the point. Although there's the whole aesthetic ideology, ultimately I don't think art is founded on anything objective necessarily. Unless you'd call it some kind of instinctual impulse to escape as being universal and objective, I don't know.

But with films especially, they deal with subjective constructs, usually because they deal with people and social situations in which there is no definitive emotional response as such. You can try to induce a desired response but not everyone is going to think the same.

As far as films that polarised the opinions of my friends and I, I'd have to go with Clockwork Orange. I think it's a beautiful film in a way but some of my other friends were quite disturbed by it (which is fair enough).

But with films especially, they deal with subjective constructs, usually because they deal with people and social situations in which there is no definitive emotional response as such. You can try to induce a desired response but not everyone is going to think the same.

As far as films that polarised the opinions of my friends and I, I'd have to go with Clockwork Orange. I think it's a beautiful film in a way but some of my other friends were quite disturbed by it (which is fair enough).

the guy hangin on the wall, his name is Art.
his brother Bob likes to go up n down in the water.
his other brother Mat just lays by the door.

"Do the Right Thing"

Never saw it. Pro'ly 'cause Spike Lee directed it. I can just imagine what his idea of "the right thing" would be, particularly back in '89. Just sayin'. If I accidentally do see it and and am proven wrong, you'll hear it here first.

If memory serves, the movie digressed into a racially charged riot.