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Is it not funny that most positive responses regarding that movie seem to center on the story? Some even say "sex"? Others claim some deep physiological insight? Hah!

While all this doesn't matter a bin? It is all just subject.

Movie as art form is NOT about the subject, it is NOT about the story line. But we have been through this already.

Same ol'... what glorious subject that makes Chardin work? What is it? A tired servant?

Art form and its success are about the artistic means, and that is NOT something one explains in few paragraphs, unlike the story line. This is why we have other forms of information flow and expression: documentaries, scientific articles, and psychology books.

Taken from that perspective the EWS is not a masterpiece, perhaps simply following YOUR OWN definition. As you stated rightly, it is YOU and I who make it artwork, not some provocative, or endlessly boring, as in this case, subject.

Enough of us fairly sophisticated moviegoers have not accepted that film as significant to at least not to have such views discarded. Given large enough audience one will always find some supporting voices, and here I think we have such case.

But one can safely say that majority opinion is what rules in art, and Vermeer is where he is only because the majority loves him, not because some super-connoisseurs do.

So I am not telling anyone not to like it. I also don't believe the people who disliked it necessarily lack the brain power, as was suggested here. And as far as it being or not being a true artwork - perhaps in a hundred of years we will know.


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