Tagged: film

There’s a concept I’d like to explore here, about the inevitability of our current decline, and why trying to fight the tide is not just useless but counterproductive. And to illustrate this concept I’ll start with a simpler version, one which everybody should be able to understand: the concept of the visionary film maker. There seems to be this particular class of geniuses – your Stanley Kubricks, Christopher Nolans, and James Camerons – who manage to put together these profound cinematic experiences that defy the conventions of the time. Men who somehow overcome the ‘studio meddling’ to put their own...