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I take Noe's work seriously....

Posted by afilado on December 4, 2008 at 09:39:40:
No question, it's awfully difficult for a "sane" person to appreciate. Who, then, is he making them for, the "insane"? That thinking has nowhere to go.

Noe is an artist of the absurd, absent humor and sympathy, his work showing scant love except in the sheer making of it. Perversity is laid out perversely, yet honorably.

I think his aim is the same as Haneke's. To shine light on something deeply personal. One can certainly argue relative success.

Noe's butcher is little different from Benny, he's just more stupid and crude. Less able to be creative. They're both natives (and prisoners) of that realm of evil not chosen (actually aren't we all, to some extent). Both are mad but only in the eyes of the fit observer. Inside their world there is a normalcy of one. They live.

How is it that one is so repelled by some particular behavior of another? It's because we recognize our own capacity for it. If that weren't the case, the objectionable behavior would pass unseen.

The degree of revulsion or rejection one feels for the acts (or depictions) of another is a measure of..............what? Normalcy, morality, goodness?

Noe is difficult but, he too, lives.