TWADDLETOWN

Every once in a while Hollywood tries to make a superior film to prove that it doesn’t just turn out mindless twaddle.

I hear that there’s a movie out about Arthur Rimbaud, but that all he does is yell and fire off machine guns and exploding arrows?!

I must protest this false depiction of a great poet. True, he was a gunrunner for a time, but why dwell on this small episode and ignore the more meaningful aspects of his life?

It almost makes me believe that Hollywood can’t even think about making films for a literate audience.

DAN CHOUINARD

Thousand Oaks