Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.
People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.