Exploring the F-word
Documentary on infamous word brings large crowds to Davies
Nicole Strittmater
Issue date: 2/11/08 Section: News
Sophomore Jessica George said she saw the posters advertising the film hanging around campus and wanted to hear all the different arguments about the word.
She said she was most interested in the analysis of how children learn bad words.
"If you tell them 'Oh, you can't say that … they'll say it a billion times,' " George said.
Hirschmann said the point that most interested her didn't even have to do with the F-word, but rather comedian Drew Carey's comment about when a documentary analyzing the C-word will come out.
"That's a completely different can of worms. After all the hullabaloo about 'fuck', are people going to start saying that word?" she said. "Language is about what we say and what we inhibit ourselves from saying, and that says something about us."
In the final scene the word, with a red, white and blue star for the 'u,' is displayed in the center of the screen. Patriotic music filled the theatre and every imaginable form of the word flickered.
The film states that "low life is now norm life," and as the theatre emptied, the audience was left with one question: Is the word indecent or not?
She said she was most interested in the analysis of how children learn bad words.
"If you tell them 'Oh, you can't say that … they'll say it a billion times,' " George said.
Hirschmann said the point that most interested her didn't even have to do with the F-word, but rather comedian Drew Carey's comment about when a documentary analyzing the C-word will come out.
"That's a completely different can of worms. After all the hullabaloo about 'fuck', are people going to start saying that word?" she said. "Language is about what we say and what we inhibit ourselves from saying, and that says something about us."
In the final scene the word, with a red, white and blue star for the 'u,' is displayed in the center of the screen. Patriotic music filled the theatre and every imaginable form of the word flickered.
The film states that "low life is now norm life," and as the theatre emptied, the audience was left with one question: Is the word indecent or not?
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