Bruno Reviewed: Brain Pollution

By Evan at July 23rd, 2009.

While reading local blogs, we came across a movie review for Bruno from former Seattle City Councilman Bruce Chapman. Here’s an excerpt…

Diane Medved is a mother and clinical psychologist who has written sagely about the way the material we witness in the media cannot help but affect us, even if indirectly. Pornography, for example, may not arouse; it may, instead, depress. Either way, a message of bleakness behind the “action” seeps into the mind, like advertising, whether you want it or not. After all, corporations pay lots of money to get their impressions into your head, trusting that it will pay off. What makes you think other messages don’t also sink in?

The issue at hand is Bruno. Diane Medved, whose husband, Michael, is a movie critic and has to go see films like Bruno, declined to attend a screening of this picture. She explained this on her blog (July 8). I was going to comment on the film about that same time, but figured that my comments would be dismissed by many readers if I didn’t bother to see the film. So I saw it. By and large, Diane was right.

Continue reading Chapman’s review and commentary by clicking here.

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