Having seen both films, I noticed they both tackle themes of loneliness which is increasingly relevant in a post Covid social media saturated world.
The success of both of them says a lot about what the younger generation is feeling.
The liminal horror genre gaining an audience is proof that people are still interested in exploring the limits of cinema. A true grassroots artistic movement born out of the internet age, unlike anything we’ve seen before... fucking love it.
This feels like a genuine cultural moment in moviegoing, watching Zoomers who honed their craft doing Youtube shorts breaking into features the way the MTV directors did in the '80s and Sundance kids did in the '90s.
“I can’t give honest feedback when it is not honest work. I can’t help you work out how you want to think about something, how you want to be in the world, if you are not using your own brain to tell me where you are.” 👍
Any educator defending the use of AI is a scab.
"just because a work of art has a political statement, it should not be considered an enemy of art. at the same time, just because a film is not making a political statement, that film should not be ignored. even if we are to make a brilliant political statement, if it’s not expressed artfully enough, it would just be propaganda" HE ALWAYS GETS IT
I actually wrote my thesis on this and the way Western celebrities can de-nationalise their activities but non-western acts (I focused on bts) can’t, as their activities are seen inherently as nation branding tools that present an answer to the western cultural hegemony