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Leading up to the film festival, animal rights activists had demanded that "Casuistry" be pulled from the program. ... [Toronto Film] festival co-director Noah Cowan rejected the calls. "Film festivals exist, in part, to generate intelligent, reasoned discussion, not to stifle it," he said in a statement before the festival began.
Bless the kind souls who are pushing to take a discussion of the possible glories of animal torture off of the screens of Toronto. Because if they succeed we may be able to delay cinemas showing films discussing things that are even worse. These kids committed an act of that was utterly horrific and pointless, which they then tried to justify by using the relativistic crap they learned in "art" school. Is it any wonder "art" schools and "artists" are so widely held in such disrepute?

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The Tiger said…
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9/15/2004 07:55:00 pm
The Tiger said…
Oops. Misunderstood the post. (And the film. Just googled it. Horrifying.)

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Non-violent protests are a good thing. ... If I were in charge of the film festival, I wouldn't have agreed to show it -- perhaps public embarassment will do the trick?

Isn't there some sort of law about profits from accounts of crimes committed by the writer/filmmaker being forfeit?
9/15/2004 07:59:00 pm
Curt said…
If there is such a law - not allowing people to profit from a crime they commit - it would not apply here. The film is about the guys who filmed the killing of a cat. It is not the actual film the cat killers made.

The merits of the cat killing film are the focus of the film now being shown and protested. For myself, I think there is nothing to discuss. It was a stupid act, creating only a useless film.
9/15/2004 09:22:00 pm
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