181: vulgar Jun 7, 2015

When film first came out, or when films were being produced out of Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union, they were very experimental, and very different to what is popular, both globally and within the United States today. Often now, for a film to be successful, it has to cover some vulgar topic: sex or violence. The word vulgar is most commonly used now to mean, "lacking sophistication or good taste, especially making explicit and offensive reference to sex". It comes from the Latin, 'vulgus' meaning ‘common people’ (for example, vulgar Latin is just the Latin used by the masses; it is not to say it is crude, per se).