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poetry and musical theater get similar accusations leveled at them in terms of not being realistic, i.e. “no one fucking talks like that” or “people don’t randomly burst into song in real life” and sometimes i just want to take people by the shoulders and say. there are forms of art that are not aiming for perfect realism. are you capable of handling that
some people have interpreted this to mean “fuck realism, all my homies hate realism” which is not what i said, actually. i love art that deals in realism. i also love art that doesn’t. realism is a choice—one tool in the toolbox of making art. like i said in the tags of this post when i made it, the main question is this: can you engage with art based on what it is trying to do, rather than what you think it should do?
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