Yes, I'm an Effing Idiot

There are some thought-provoking (and some retarded) opinions on Roman Polanski over at Ain't It Cool News. Some of my favourites:

• "if you were raped by the baker, how would you feel if your friends kept buying pastries from him because they were seperating the tartist from the tart?"
• "Roman Polanski is an enormously gifted director and Chinatown is a classic. Oliver Twist might even be a fantastic children's movie. None of that has anything to do with the fact that this man should not be allowed to take in a breath of air that doesn't smell like a prison yard."
• "The people...who really sound like a**holes, are the ones who claim that they can distinguish the art from the artist. And of course while not condoning child rape, and HATING the man personally, they still allow themselves to seperate the sicko from the movie. What, because you're such enlightened individuals? Hell no, you're f***ing lazy. You can NEVER, ever, seperate the art from the artists. The artist is why the art is the way it is. Child molestor, cerebral palsy sufferer, or whether they're just an angry dude. To make up some excuse that you like the work, and not the man, is horsesh**. The simple fact is that you don't care."

But, alas, most of the comments basically say that people like myself are effing idiots for daring to make a moral judgement call when it comes to our personal entertainment choices. So, I'm an effing idiot. Least I'm not an international fugitive.

Speaking of effing idiots, what kind of coked-out parents would let their kids act in a Roman Polanski film, anyway? "Say, Marge, let's ship Timmy overseas to work with a bail-jumping cooze hound! That'll be good for him!"

Also, does anyone actually want to see another version of Oliver Twist, the most played-out of all the played-out children's classics? Are we really, keenly, interested in watching some grubby little turn-of-the-century ruffians hanging around on cobblestone streets for two hours? Does anyone actually believe that 10-year-olds would want to see this tripe?

I didn't think so.