> I think there is a danger in idealising what film is
> and what it does, based on speculative and
> questionable "philosophy". As Freud said, sometimes a
> cigar is just a cigar.
Sure, and in this sense for example the last "Flinstone",
is in my opinion a very good example of rubbish.
But what surprised me, is the usual repetition of social old parts
modelled from the "good american society", a portrait which
is going to be, in my humble opinion, really a shame first of all
for the american society itself which doesn't make in this
movie a great effect, I should say ...
It seems to me that many contemporary Hollywood or Hollywood-like
movies really have difficulty with reality, they are no more able
of interpreting it also when the goal is to modify or distort
it. Thus what appear to be the result of such movies is a cold
static copy of some comsumpte ideal representation of the past,
like the flinstone with its factory scenes or clubs meetings
and so on. I don't know to what compare this fact if not with
the theater of Goldonian age, full of machineries and really
empty of living blood ... of reality.
I think this kind of america is really old-fashioned,
demode' ...
Best wishes,
Paolo
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