Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.
People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
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