Talk:Darkon (film)

Fair use rationale for Image:DarkonTheMovie.jpg

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BetacommandBot 02:36, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Darkon poster.jpg

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BetacommandBot 02:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

NPOV

As it currently stands, the text of this article (as below) serves as a personal abuse of the people depicted in the film.

The strangest type of black comedy, the desire to laugh at the people featured in the movie fades quickly, and the desire to pity them takes over. The documentary focuses on a group of socially mal-adjusted misfits who use the world of pretend as an escape from their self-described tedious, boring, or otherwise miserable lives.

It cleverly points out how escape through fantasy can only serve to make real life problems worse, as several of the major characters have massive real life problems they ignore in favor or pretending to be someone else.

The viewer is left not knowing if he should laugh at the over done seriousness put towards a game of pretend, or cry over the sea of isolation, loneliness, and misery that surrounds the major characters.

I feel this violates the Neutral Point of View guidelines established by Wikipedia. As far as I can tell, it was not the intention of the filmmakers to portray them as "mal-adjusted misfits". Rather this is an extrapolation made by some (possibly the majority) of viewers. I'd suggest serious revision and am therefore adding a NPOV tag. Somerut (talk) 09:01, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

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That's nonsense periodically added by an anonymous IP -- no need to discuss it in any detail, just delete it (as I've done before). AnonMoos (talk) 09:54, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Didn't realize, should have checked. Thanks Somerut (talk) 05:46, 18 June 2008 (UTC)