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From: Andy Shaindlin <shain@umich.edu>
I agree with Juan's assessment of the Pathe-Lolita web site (the official
site of the film). One thing that struck me is that the site contains a
very defensive posture re: criticism of the film, for example the following:
"It is odd that some of the few who have seen the new film are too
awed by the religious right or the politically correct left to praise for
art's sake, and that includes the same New Yorker that launched Nabokov and
has long published Schiff.
Or perhaps it's a different New Yorker. People may be too blinded
by grisly current events to remember that pubescent girls have been
marriageable and mateable in many cultures, from those of the pharaohs, of
Dante, of Petrarch to the Tokyo of today. The mother who invites disaster
by dolling up her daughter of six like a Barbie
and showing her off goes scot-free."
ps: I hope I don't offend anyone on the list with the quote below. I meant
no disrespect to Mr De Vere. I mean, Bacon.... ;-)
Andy Shaindlin
shain@umich.edu
"And if you e-mail me, do I not reply?"
I agree with Juan's assessment of the Pathe-Lolita web site (the official
site of the film). One thing that struck me is that the site contains a
very defensive posture re: criticism of the film, for example the following:
"It is odd that some of the few who have seen the new film are too
awed by the religious right or the politically correct left to praise for
art's sake, and that includes the same New Yorker that launched Nabokov and
has long published Schiff.
Or perhaps it's a different New Yorker. People may be too blinded
by grisly current events to remember that pubescent girls have been
marriageable and mateable in many cultures, from those of the pharaohs, of
Dante, of Petrarch to the Tokyo of today. The mother who invites disaster
by dolling up her daughter of six like a Barbie
and showing her off goes scot-free."
ps: I hope I don't offend anyone on the list with the quote below. I meant
no disrespect to Mr De Vere. I mean, Bacon.... ;-)
Andy Shaindlin
shain@umich.edu
"And if you e-mail me, do I not reply?"