99 Homes, Shelter and harsh American realities:
Filmmakers inch their way toward important truths - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/10/tff5-o10.html
his is the fifth in a series of articles devoted to the recent Toronto film festival (September 4-14). Part 1 was posted September 18, Part 2 on September 24, Part 3 on September 26, and Part 4 on October 2.
The dominant view in contemporary cinema and criticism, unstated or not, is that art and social analysis are to all practical purposes mutually exclusive, that the dramatization of social problems, including the conditions under which vast numbers of people live, is not conducive to the creation of “genuine art.”