Fantastic short!!!! - What's the difference among 2004 and 2006 version?

Monkey-blah is spot on re: Titian; Lol-ee-ta is, er, naive. In the meantime, it speaks volumes, jamie, that your 'critique' of capitalism is the now familiar variation on 'anti-capitalism' that would have Marx turning in his grave. Thanks for reducing us all to automatons, to mere conduits of consumerism, whose minds are wholly manipulated by 'the meeja', except for the chosen few like yourself, naturally. (And though a film featuring naked women in a supermarket was guaranteed to upset your delicate sensibilities, it does give you plenty of scope to judge the film morally instead of aesthetically.) Your prejudices are nevertheless still old enough to have been demolished by the great Marxist George Lukács in the 1930s, who understood that capitalism is not a conspiracy but a system built on the exchange value of our labour power, and that its ruling ideas do not come ready-made as an ideology with which to cosh our sensibilities, but are rather the ad hoc product of contradictory social relations (whose progressive dynamism Marx sought to liberate from its reactionary limits). Your barely concealed contempt for the 'sexist' masses is only a reflection of your own ennui and alienation from your fellow citizens, at a time when the capitalist elite's own profound self-doubt (in the absence of the class struggle that once gave it coherence) has been generalised throughout society as a culture of fear and doom-mongering about our possible futures.

Or, to put it another way, stop whining and read this:

http://www.heartfield.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/interventions.pdf

As James Heartfield reminds us, in contrast to today’s 'anti-capitalists' Marx thought that the emerging consumerism was capitalism’s redeeming feature:

"He searches for means to spur them on to consumption, to give his wares new charms, to inspire them with new needs by constant chatter etc. It is precisely this side of the relation of capital and labour which is an essential civilising moment, and on which the historic justification, but also the contemporary power of capital rests."

(Marx, Grundrisse)

In the spirit of Marx I say, Three cheers for supermarkets! As for the film, how dare a film that touches on the artist's idealisation of female beauty feature gorgeous women with no clothes on!!! etc. What utter twaddle - it's not even remotely sexist, but is instead a compelling, beautiful and strangely moving narrative.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

When you learn more than junior-high level "philosophy", let us know. Until then, we'll just laugh at your silly high-sounding but empty rant.