Fuck

| February 3, 2009 | Leave your comment

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The Premise: A documentary on the word “fuck” and how it’s affected history and culture. Fuck: A Documentary interviews a bunch of people who know the word well such as George Carlin, Ice-T, Ron Jeremy and Janeane Garofalo (I love her btw). It’s a word loved by some as much as it is hated by others. It’s in movies, television, books and even the Senate. For such a small word it has quite a big impact.

The Good: As far as I could tell it covered just about every aspect of the word from how it came to be, to the controversies to the diversity of it such as “go fuck yourself” to “who the fuck cares?” Fuck is the bad word of all bad words, I know it’s my favorite bad word. What really got me thinking is whether cursing really effects children badly. I heard swears growing up and I don’t think it had a negative impact. The way I see it the more impact we put on the word “fuck” the more leverage the word is given in society. What if it were just a word?

The Bad: I don’t have anything bad to say about it, it’s a documentary and some people just don’t do them. It’s cool but you miss out on a lot.

What are your thoughts on this topic?

If you want to rent it on Netflix you can get it here and you can also add me as a friend.

Rating: ★★★★½

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  • http://feedproxy.google.com/CaffeineAndCabernetcom Giggle Pixie

    I’ll watch it!

  • http://heathersblog.com Heather B

    I saw something like this a while ago, might have to find this one too

  • http://www.roadlessunraveled.com Robin

    Sweet :rock:

  • http://www.roadlessunraveled.com Robin

    There was a documentary on the MPAA, I’ve seen that too.

  • edmcbride

    honestly i think its just another word. course i don’t say it at work, but i’m not afraid to drop the f bomb

  • http://www.roadlessunraveled.com Robin

    Ed – That’s cause you’re badass :ed:

  • edmcbride

    hahah i’m pretty much the farthest person to be a badass

  • http://www.roadlessunraveled.com Robin

    We all have a little badassness in us, you just haven’t had to use yours yet.

  • http://www.kapgar.com kapgar

    I need to see that documentary. Have you ever heard the old .wav file about how versatile “fuck” is as a word? Hilarious.

  • http://www.roadlessunraveled.com Robin

    Kapgar – I think I saw a forward about it once but I don’t think I’ve heard the .wav file.

  • http://heathersblog.com Heather B

    @Kapgar I love that .wav

  • http://teahouseblossom.blogspot.com teahouseblossom

    Wow..that looks like a totally fascinating movie. I’m definitely adding it to my Netflix queue now!

    I wonder if the Supreme Court watched this; they recently considered a case over whether this word is still considered profane to a degree that when it was accidentally blurted out during a live broadcast, the station acted appropriately by fining the person who yelled it.

  • http://www.roadlessunraveled.com Robin

    The talked about the whole Supreme Court thing and the fining in the movie, it’s such bullshit. What do they really think this word will do? I would think violence is way more destructive to kids witness than one four letter word. I found it quite amusing that Dick Cheney actually said the word “fuck” at the Senate.