Vanity Fair - Vanity Mela; lets have some confetti

There's sth highly pretentious about "the culture show" on BBC2. I started watching it initially cos there was this interview with Danny Boyle abt slumdog but couldn't even last 15 minutes (the show itself is thirty). I have to admit, I simply can't stand people talking about movies and music like other people don't get it. Like they're looking at it from a "higher" perspective which others aren't capable of reaching.




















I doubt having a fine arts/art history/any other art related degree would make the degree holder's comments on ^ more valid (technical aspects of painting excluded) than someone who only visits art galleries once in a while, or maybe even never except for posters they see on the streets/the internet etc. Unless they've had an accident that subsequently was the cause of several miscarriages which would probably help them relate to it at a different level but surely the aim of the piece is to show to people who haven't had that experience as well, exactly how life changing an accident like that can be by means of a painting. That's the beauty of art, and (this point people often forget) the whole point of art. It's done for people to connect to (usually artists say they do it for themselves, like it's a form of release, therapeutic, or even just personal entertainment etc), not to be used as a tool for showing off how knowledgable or cultural you are. Yakh. Stop misusing art you fucking losers. (On a different note professional artists would probably never have been able to make money hadn't it been for some of their customers being those "highly cultural" people planning to exhibit a fragment of their "learned and sophisticated" mind through buying a piece that cost them 10K+ *insert currency of your choice* to hang on their living room wall for all their guests to see. Btw I do realise they don't quite fall under the same category as film critics but what makes them appear similar is the sheer arrogance and snobbish confidence with which they sneer at what normal ppl have to say and chuck around their opinion like people are dogs sitting there waiting, wagging their tails to pick up like bones, the "wise words" which part from the mouths of these "better learned" in order to understand paintings/books/songs/movies better. Ehhhh wtf??)

It'd probably be more tolerable if these smartasses tried to sound a bit more humble with their opinion? Every single thing Mark Kermode said about slumdog during the show has probably gone through the minds of everyone else who watched the movie and thought about it a little bit afterwards or perhaps when they spotted the poster for it while waiting to catch the tube and stuff. Blah. Nevermind.