The winner of the 70th Venice Film Festival, “Sacro GRA”, is a documentary about people, including sex workers, living along the ring road around Rome (can’t wait). Other films on show featured an alien in human form, a JFK assassination movie, necrophilia, and a whishy-washy film about Donald Rumsfeld (yawn).

Note: humour, taste, beauty, not to mention good stories, are now ignored in the rush to shock the tired, sex-obsessed critics and the powers that be at festivals and Hollywood events. Endless films using foul language and unnecessary violence fill the screens. The art of writing clever, funny dialogue and movies without the f word and coarse language appears to be dead. Epicurus would take one glance at all this so-called entertainment and conclude that the West was in steep moral decline.