Has art gone too far

[Dill]

(01-22-2020, 02:50 PM)fredtoast Wrote: This thread is going nowhere.

So let me ask what would have been "too far"?

What if he had used actual footage of the victims dying from their wounds?

I cannot define "too far" in art. 

The problem with judging art by its content is that what makes it "art" is how it is framed.

Actual footage of victims dying could certainly be art, especially if part of the point was to help people understand the real world consequences of mass shootings.  It could be legitimate in other "non-artistic" contexts as well.

On the other hand, such scenes could also be framed as "death porn" for people who get off on that stuff. I would call that "wrong," not art going too far.