Hierarchy of Art and Rotten Tomatoes
There's what you know you know, what you know you don't know, and what you don't know you don't know. And as human beings, we all sport pretty gargantuan ignorance of our own ignorance -- what we don't know we don't know. Then there's the desire the masses possess to be cultured and have refined taste in art. Combine the two and you get a cult of high art: a group of people, without acute judgement, dismissing certain types of art as "mindless entertainment for the tasteless" and worshiping certain types of art that they deem intellectual and sophisticated enough. But are there really such things as high art and low art? And if they do exist, does enjoying "low art" have to be such a shameful experience that we have to label certain movies as "guilty pleasures?" I personally believe certain films do lend themselves to unequivocal claims of artistic superiority. For example, Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal artis...