ur. Different views of the film can be found in different commentators.
Camille Paglia, a professor considered to have an anti-feminist bent, states of Madonna and Truth or Dare:
Madonna is the true feminist. . . She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism . . . Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising total control over their lives. She shows girls how to be attractive, sensual, energetic, ambitious, aggressive, and funny all at the same time (Sobran 32).
Her communication in Truth or Dare thus is seen as having a teaching effect that contributes to society.
Another view is that Madonna serves only herself and that the communication in this film does nothing more than challenge whatever the censors might not like:
But for Madonna, art is defined by the censors: it's whatever they don't like. So someone who gets the censors howling must be an artist. Silly, but a lot of people agree with her, and they buy tickets. Madonna offers something new under the sun: vicarious self absorption. It takes a special kind of imagination to identify with a solipsist (Sobran 34).
Some see this as no more than a way to get higher profits for Madonna (Aborn 62).
The film is important because of the controversy it has created between the two sides in the debat
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