Originally posted by RogerRamjet
no because if he shot child abuse as described in the book (and we're talking about 4-10 year olds) the movie would've never opened..
Originally posted by Slaywell yes..the movie makes exactly no point except for transferring the book into pictures..now if you're looking for the author's motivation for writing this stuff down..was it to shock it's readers or entertain? i really can't tell and people are still arguing about it today...you have to think about a man's psyche that was incarcerated in cell for several years...left to rot in one of the nastiest prisons that ever existed (La Bastille)..i think only the Tower Of London was nastier..
No, I mean if he left out those bits explaining the four libertines' motivations for the whole thing etc. It would seem to people viewing it at the time as some sort of snuff film, resulting in them being even more shocked?