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Achrya's reply to the review of Disney's The Kid, in a letter to the editor of Sydsvenska Dagbladet. Original in Swedish.

Political affiliation isn't the issue

A critical viewpoint is, of course, a must in a film reviewer's work. The criticism should address the technical and artistic qualities of a film, but also its ideas and message. Comments on individual participants' political party affiliation, on the other hand, have no place in such a review.
Bruce Willis has taken part in a number of movies that live up to the epithet "vulgar conservative garbage flicks", but also in several films that make no good US Republican happy: "In Country", "Pulp Fiction", "Twelve Monkeys", "Breakfast of Champions"...
No matter how much one dislikes the American Republicans' politics, the party is an established one that follows the rules of political life in a democratic country. An individual citizen, even if his name is Bruce Willis, must have the right to vote for, belong to and actively support such a party without it being used against him in judging the quality of his professional performance.

Achrya@spray.se, January 2001
     
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