i don't disagree with that at all ~ and i think i am spinning it negatively, but i think it's because the characters are so personally irresponsible that i see it that way. i think we're left with a very fatalistic view because Mark is the only one who's not dying and he's the one whom Roger accuses of being "detached" and self-pitying ~ when really Mark not only has the least to pity about himself, but has also avoided that destructive behavior of the others (collins perhaps being the other exception, though he's still HIV).
i think recycled existentialism is the definition of post-modernism in some ways and decontructionist post-modernism can't help but be nihilistic ~ and so that's where i'm coming from.
it's one thing to create something out of the beautiful moment, but i almost feel that Rent succombs to pandering to the yuppy corporate culture it's decrying. for all its message about "don't sell out" ~ i think it actually does just that in the end.
i'm probably still not articulating this well. hahahahaha ~ but i do see what the "intent" is (and it's as you say) ~ i'm just not buying it because so much else about the show (for me) seems to be sending a counter-message.
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i think recycled existentialism is the definition of post-modernism in some ways and decontructionist post-modernism can't help but be nihilistic ~ and so that's where i'm coming from.
it's one thing to create something out of the beautiful moment, but i almost feel that Rent succombs to pandering to the yuppy corporate culture it's decrying. for all its message about "don't sell out" ~ i think it actually does just that in the end.
i'm probably still not articulating this well. hahahahaha ~ but i do see what the "intent" is (and it's as you say) ~ i'm just not buying it because so much else about the show (for me) seems to be sending a counter-message.
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