[Djehuti]

I have noticed too: propagandistic cinema in the past was sometimes very political, but much better than anything we have now in terms of creativity or artistic merit. You can watch Nazi or Soviet films without favouring Nazism or Communism, and enjoy them. Also the religious cinema (I´m not a believer) contains messages that are bullshit, however it generated masterpieces sometimes, like the one about St Francis´life.

It also happens in plastic art. “Degenerate art” in the first half of the XXth century was not degenerate at all, it just mirrored the times and the zeitgeist. The artists themselves were degenerates of course, but not the art. However nowadays you don´t even get that. It is just fake and ugly. It is still a mirror of the times we live in, in which everything is fake and shallow. There are still great artists in all kind of genres, even female artists, they just don´t get the media attention.

• This reply was modified 12 months ago by Djehuti.

[A_Spartan_Speaks]

Everyone needs to watch Birth of a Nation and TRiumph of the Will to see how powerful messages can be conveyed by media in positive fashion.

[Archtraitor]

To an extent this has always been an issue.Cinema has always been used to push a political point (Not necessarily a bad thing) but what we are seeing now is the death of art to serve the creation of the new cinema.
Where you are told what to think of the movie before seeing it.Where now it never stands on its own two feet.Where time is wasted thinking instead of enjoying.Also insults are being held up as something worthy of worship to the masses

I’ll be glad when the superhero genre finally comes to an end but I’m convinced it is a symptom and not a cause

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