From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #966 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Tuesday, February 4 2003 Volume 01 : Number 966 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:05:47 -0500 From: "Amelia Parkin" Subject: Re: [AML] Singles Ward Ronda Knudsen wrote of Singles Ward: "I think this fairly well represents LDS Singles culture" This captures exactly why I hate this film and why, after watching it the one and only time I have seen it, I went home depressed. I hate the culture that inspired the film because I find it, after being a part of it for ten years, hollow, shallow, uninteresting, and completely unstimulating. And oppressive and controlling. And the fact that anyone made a campy comedy rather than a satire about this culture, a work of art that completely reinforces it without questioning it, depresses me. And worse, the fact that millions of people have seen it and found it funny depresses me even more. And then there's the fact that it's just not a good film as a film. amelia _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:53:05 -0700 From: "D. Michael Martindale" Subject: Re: [AML] Singles Ward RichardDutcher@aol.com wrote: > My experiences over the past three years have led me to believe that perhaps > our artistic community has not matured enough to accept criticism. Understatement of the year. - -- D. Michael Martindale dmichael@wwno.com ================================== Check out Worldsmiths, the new online LDS writers group, at http://www.wwno.com/worldsmiths Sponsored by Worlds Without Number http://www.wwno.com ================================== - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #966 ******************************