"there is an ontological difference even before an aesthetic one". This is key. It does not matter how good your machine is at regurgitating a simulacrum of human imagination, how skilled it is at fooling people, or how efficient it is at that subterfuge. It is a priori fucked up
it's impossible to convince people tumblr porn was good because the only remnants of it that survive are like the cockroaches that survive nuclear bomb sites but it was REALLY good
katniss and gale’s doomed friendship actually means so much to me you watch this deep bond of trust and love disintegrate and wither away as the two of them try to hold on to it so tight that it’s hurting them but if we talk about them without the love triangle lens they kill you
I like the Resident Evil movie as a social experiment to see who is an empathetic human being or not.
No, you don't *have* to help the little girl, but if you truly cannot understand *why* someone would try to help that little girl, you are not a good person.