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From: jeff@tesla.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: TZK Sequel  (slightly smoldering)
Message-ID: <248@tesla.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Nov-83 21:46:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 23 21:46:40 1983
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The movies the chap at the end of the machine called "francois" likes seem
to be escapist entertainment; Taxi zum Klo is hardly escapist.  It is,
I think, very real, and portrays realistically a rather sordid character.
For its realism, its lack of either idealization of the type ("personal
best") or playing to the galleries (cage aux folles), TZK is celebrated.
Maybe it's unpleasant to see such a face presented to the world, but it
IS a true portrayal of a type.  It's hardly a work of art, it's grainy,
unedifying, just a documentary, really.  But it's celebrated because
it's a straightforward presentation of what must be to the majority
of those who see it (i.e., straight people) a rather exotic form of
sordidness.  Surely there must be other films of interest to this
group than those already mentioned?  Something MUST have been produced
in Berlin during the Isherwood days?  Any film-history buffs out
there?
Jeff