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Despite its lack of graphic content, L.I.E. has been slapped with a dreaded NC-17 rating, although the highly honored American Beauty exploited a more explicit, and much less affectionate (heterosexual) May-December romance and was only dealt an R from the MPAA. Clearly, suburbia isn’t the only cave to mine for hypocrisy...
...television, Americans were treated to graphic scenes of soldiers dying. In the age of mobile phones, we can now say goodbye to the casualties before they die. It is a haunting privilege, a glimpse into the mind-set of the doomed. Just like the images, the voices tell us more and less than we want to know...
...messages is presumably intended to personify the piece of clothing as an extension of the owner, concealing taboo desires within acceptable trappings of modern society. Like the rest of Udé’s exhibit, this series directly questions one’s sense of normality. Although the graphic descriptions in the ads may cause some viewers discomfort or occasion disapproval, these “special order” shirts and shoes still pose questions about the way one should perceive the world...
Udé manages to unnerve his audience through the graphic nature of this series. “Beyond Decorum” may not be the exhibit for everyone. It is highly pornographic and very open to interpretation by the audience. Whether you believe that Udé is a serious artist whose work merits praise for the risks it takes, or you see him as a sex-obsessed, club-hopping narcissist, “Beyond Decorum” is certainly an exhibit worth seeing. If nothing else, the next time your boss reprimands you for photocopying your rear end, you?...
...Korea stumbled toward democracy in the '90s, the lid popped off. Talented young directors, many trained overseas, began making powerful films that often shocked audiences with graphic depictions of sex and violence. Technical quality improved steadily and genres multiplied. Shiri, released in 1999, was the breakthrough. Hollywood-style in its pacing and punch, it probed the still-sensitive issue of relations between the two Koreas through the story of a North Korean assassin who falls in love with a South Korean counterintelligence agent. The film sold 5.8 million tickets, shattering the previous record for a locally made movie...