Yet art which bludgeons the senses ends up by numbing, and thus paves the way to the snuffmovie and the reduction of art to sado-masochistic voyeurism.
ECONOMIST: Why is art so hard?
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The Welles in question, played by Nicolas Cage, is a private detective who is asked to watch a snuffmovie and to find out just how snuffy it is whether a young woman was actually killed onscreen.