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April 20, 2006
Eye Candy: what's Hard about defining art
One of the more compelling strands of subtext in Brian Nelson's script for Hard Candy, directed by David Slade, is the consideration that what is offensive in the eyes of one person—a 32-year-old man, a 14-year-old girl—may in fact be artful to another. While the "worst" of the male protagonist's collection of images is never seen, several large photographs he's shot are displayed on the walls of his home, commissioned by the production from photograher Ye Rin Mok; young Haley finds them troubling. Here are two.
Posted by pride at April 20, 2006 10:59 AM
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