de Sade No Killer

[Guest guest]

> I tried watching when it first came to video...It was

> too late at night and I didn't last long. I'd like to

> see it again. A & E had a good biography on the

> Marquis...He was a part of their evil deeds week

> (personally I feel it was unfair to put him up there

> with Hitler and Dahmer).

> Warmly,

> Allison

 

I'd agree, as all he did was write what was then considered pornography

but what would now be considered a rather bland mini-series.

 

QUILLS does a good job of underscoring the hypocrisy of his confinement

and condemnation, which stemmed from high-level prudes and moral

reprobates who wanted control and envied his works' popularity. The movie

parallels quotations from his writings to the everyday brutality and

corruption surrounding him, and shows that he was doing nothing but being

honest and celebrating the diversity of his fellow human beings, along

with their polymorphous perversity.

 

Lumping him with either Hitler, who was a political leader and Bush family

friend, and Dahmer, who was a pathetic little cannibal, is ridiculous.

de Sade should stand as a prime example of persecuted artist -- he should

be considered in the same breath as Pasternak and Solszhenitsyn.

 

 

 

Whenever they will burn books they will also, in

the end, burn human beings. --Heinriche Hein