Occasionally the
ugly will be exaggerated in
art (I think of certain scenes in The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse
Now, for example), but even exaggeration is justified in light of its educational purpose.
And right
now, as spring teeters into summer, even those of us most squeamish about acknowledging
Art's
ugly (but well turned - out) stepsister, Commerce, find our filmic conversations dominated by one thing: $ $ $ $ $ $.