On Thursday I went to the cinema and there were no tickets left: nostalgia hit me like goosebumps. I went back on Friday to watch “Sundays,” no longer a movie but a topic of conversation, and the realization that what someone expects still matters … On a big screen in a dark room. Alauda Ruiz de Azua He made us think of inviting a teenager who leaves the world to enter a monastery, and then discusses the matter at length, and today he is a Martian. I see all these people arguing about faith and family, about returning that father who doesn’t exist, about love for that aunt who doesn’t understand and doesn’t exist either, and I find there the deep, retrograde meaning of the stories, the reason why we inevitably become addicted to fiction. He said to the cinema Tarkovskyyou will search for time that has been lost, that has escaped, or that has not yet been gained; We go to the cinema, among other things, to live a life that we will never live and that nevertheless interests us. because? Because the ego exhausts its monopoly after adolescence, but the thirst for conversation does not disappear. Culture is that conversation we keep having around the fire.
Alejandro Gonzalez IñárrituHe complained the other day about all the space, time and energy we devote to talking about the box office grosses of films, something that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago. “This mass insanity around everything that has nothing to do with cinema is brutal. He stressed that “all of these things harm the enjoyment of cinema and people’s happiness.” There’s something sad about all the articles that write tracking the global box office as if they were the vital signs of an ICU patient, because deep down they confuse the film industry with cinema itself, which is like confusing bottled water with the sea. Los Domingos didn’t need to reach streaming platforms to become a phenomenon;A house full of dynamite“, and many others, yes. The question is whether these industry details should matter so much to us viewers. So much so that you can stop thinking about the consequences of a possible nuclear attack on the United States or what it would be like for that teenager who entered the monastery that Sunday.
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