Why Are Movies Obsessed With Hidden Themes—And What’s Getting Lost in the Process?
And that’s another thing: Enough with all the depth and meaning already!
Remember when movies were black-and-white vignettes of mustachioed strongmen lifting weights, or a group of bandits silently chasing a train on horseback? We need more of that these days. Silly, mindless fun like they used to make. I miss going to unpretentious popcorn movies that you could take a date to without having to worry about it “being about something.”
Now, before you bombard me with angry emails, I know I can just skip past all the themes and concepts of any movie and go straight to the credits. But I shouldn’t have to, and neither should you. That’s why I’m asking you to join my nationwide cinema boycott!
Let’s make it perfectly clear to all the studios and filmmakers out there: Until you stop polluting your movies with gratuitous themes, ideas, and allusions of all kinds, we’re gonna spend our precious free time doing something more worthwhile. Like reading and rereading all seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time in its original French.
Because after all, “Le seul véritable voyage…ce ne serait pas d’aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d’avoir d’autres yeux.”
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