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Citizen Kane is not a great film objectively, but it appears in most people's lists of great films and the qualities it possesses in abundance are those qualities by which greatness in films is judged.
Equally, there are certain films which possess almost none of those qualities. The high level of general agreement over whether or not Citizen Kane is a better film than Robot Monster (1953) would seem to suggest that there is some objective basis for value, no?
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Thanks, all.
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Yo, Sofie. Organised the M7 tickets?
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We set the rules. Our aesthetic values are subjective and communal - they are arrived at by discussion.
We don't arrive at an answer to whether something is factually true by discussion (though we may discuss it, no discussion has any influence on the answer). How is aesthetic value different?*
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Can you tell what his point is?
Since we are all agreed that we want 'good' results, it's okay to dispense with democracy, to some extent.
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In a shocking revelation, I can reveal today that I recently took a banana to a cricket match. And not only a banana. An apple too. Neither of these fruits – which could easily be replaced with powerful plastic explosives – was sighted by the security guard who "searched" my bag
You promised you'd tell us about pointed sticks.
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your reactions to movies are SUBJECTIVE
Well, that's your opinion...
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Did you end up in a paddywagon too?
No; getting the bash was enough standing-up-to-the-man for me. I "dispersed".
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& u didn't video it? Lest we forget!
It was one of my first big lessons in the manipulation of reality by the media; they cut into the shot on the very frame where the batton bounced out of shot, leaving just a bedraggled 3410 crumpling to the ground. The police were very enthusiastic with their battons that day, though not a single shot of it appeared on the 6pm news.
The same goes for other events I attended during those years. There were many complaints in the early '90s about brutality against Auckland students, but no one in authority took it seriously because the news items were whitewashed.
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A pub crawl gone out of hand or something?
Sort of. After the carnage of the previous two years, the police had banned the annual AU pub crawl. Of course, it went ahead anyway; mounted police divided the crowd at the corner of Fort and Jean Batten, and riot squads forced each group away. Footage of me falling under a police batton in High St. appeared on 3news that night.