четверг, 28 марта 2013 г.

Rendering №8

The article published on the website of the newspaper "The Guardian" on March 26, 2013 is headlined "Why British critics don't get The Book of Mormon" by Oliver Burkeman. The article reports at the South Park creators' musical was much lauded in the US, but its satirical sensibility may be lost in translation to London. 
Speaking of this situation it is necessary to note that the Book of Mormon, the much-applauded musical from the creators of South Park, officially opened in London last week – and like the grinning, clean-cut missionaries whose story it relates, it's been getting some baffled reactions from the locals.
The author writes that this is a show that won nine Tony awards, and which the New York Times – leading the near-unanimous praise from US critics – called "something like a miracle". 
It’s important to point out that the first strange thing about this difference of opinion: you'd have thought it might have been the other way around.
It is necessary to note that the second curiosity is how much the unimpressed Brits disagree with each other.
It is important to point out that Letts even trots out that laziest of criticisms, never far away whenever Christians are being satirised.
Analyzing this situation it is necessary to emphasize points towards the great value of Parker and Stone's comedy, which elevates "take no prisoners" to the status of an ethical principle.
The author writes that If you'll allow a vast cultural generalisation from the perspective of a British person living in the United States: comfort with this kind of complexity, he suspects, is something at which Americans are peculiarly good.
The article draws a conclusion that "The Book of Mormon" seems to say, to locate that vantage-point from which you can laugh at others' absurdities; laugh at your own; engage in pointed, angry satire when you need to; make running jokes about scrotums; and still maintain a certain cracked and off-kilter faith in humanity.
As for me, I think you can't be Swift and Pollyanna at the same time. But I'd respectfully disagree that sometimes, it's the only way to stay sane.



1 комментарий:

  1. Good!

    Slips:
    - The article reports at THAT the South Park creators' musical, WHO was much lauded in the US

    Be careful with your punctuation

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