they’re not. don’t you know that everything is garbage? watching movies is consooming! my friends at RLM told me so!

>>213868478 (OP)

It was before the rise of digital cameras, shakey cam, rapid cutting, unsubtle color filters and all that bollocks trying to imitate The Matrix.

My pet theory was that filmmakers were influenced by nature specials of the 1970's, so when VHS hit movies felt like they were spaces you wanted to inhabit, people you wanted to see, phrases that were welcoming or inspiriting in a general sense, characters that stood out for having a particular virtue even if they were bizarre; true portraits of a well-rounded society which might mirror a david attenborough special. Rigorous, taut, literate, conscious of its material supremacy and moral threats yet virtually unconscious of their own cultural affect. Basically they took the generic aspects of American mid-century culture and made it both more remarkably individual and sociologically abstract, something that is all over John Hughes, Tarantino, Spielberg, Zemeckis... Previously gritty cop dramas were effectively turned into vaudeville comedies throughout the 80's and 90's, a bizarre form of stylistic ecstasy that later generations can't understand. Also it was a less digital culture so people understood that there were no shortcuts. Colours popped like they did in comic books and lights illuminated the landscape of a face rather than making people look like animals in a pen, because that was more evocative of American life.

>Sociologically, the collective conscious is a material-semiotic network that links people, things, stories, norms, and rituals together in meaningful ways.