Am I alone in finding that something is happening at the cinema?
Until recently, when we went to a 10-theater complex, nine showed superhero films.
Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Antman, Aquaman, Assmanetc.
The good guy in one corner, the bad guy in the other.
Zero subtlety, zero depth.
Films so simplistic that you had to wear glasses to see any relief.
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Have people grown tired of cardboard saviors? Are they tired of always gnawing on the same bone?
The fact remains that we are seeing more and more “adult” films in theaters. With complex characters and plots.
And these films are becoming more and more successful.
It feels good.
As if people are finally realizing that life isn’t like a wrestling match.
I have always said that cinema is a reflection of our unconscious. That screens are windows that allow us to see what is going on in our heads.
If it’s true, this public fatigue with superheroes is good news.
Proof that people are fed up with this binary vision of the world.
The Trumpists on one side, the wokes on the other.
The followers of the ultra-right who would like the government nowhere and those of the ultra-left who would like it everywhere.
These extremists look alike. They feed off each other, like Batman and the Joker.
They burn with the same fire, blow on the same embers, dream of the same pyres.
Some would like to censor “immoral” works and others would like to censor “politically and ideologically dangerous” works.
Two enemies united in their hatred of democracy, of debate.
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DYLAN AND JONI
You know Joni Mitchell’s beautiful song, Both Sides Now?
(Otherwise, listen to it right away, in Judy Collins’ version, the one we hear during the end credits of the film Hereditary.)
The singer says that when she was a child, she believed clouds were “angel hair” and “ice cream castles in the sky.”
Then later she thought they were actually terrifying, that they blocked the sun.
Now, she says, I see them from both sides.
The same goes for love. And life in general.
Who knows? Movie buffs might be looking for this.
Films that show us life in all its complexity and richness. His difficulties.
I’m reading a biography of Bob Dylan. “This man has so many facets that he is round,” said one of his friends.
(“This man has so many sides he’s round.”)
I love this sentence.
Like the famous statement Dylan made when he was awarded the Civil Liberties Prize in December 1963.
“For me, the world is no longer divided between white and black, or left and right. But between the top and the bottom.”
The sentence, at the time, was shocking.
Fifty-nine years later, on the contrary, she seems fair, wise, and informed.
Like a “blowing in the wind” response.