Anyone paying attention to Hollywood knows that the theater business is being told more frequently and worryingly than ever before that it’s in trouble. If fewer people are going to the movies than ever before, part of the reason has to do with the ease of home streaming, not to mention the proliferation of digital distractions precisely designed to capture our attention. However, does this have something to do with changes in the photo itself? It has been viewed more than 2 million times in just 4 days, new like an old story video essay on He attempts to explain “why movies no longer feel ‘authentic’.”
Even glasses, which have been hugely budgeted and constantly sold over the years in recent years, feel strangely insubstantial on screens, big and small. Tom van der Linden, the creator of this video, points to a variety of factors, starting with the worsening lack of correspondence between cinematic images and our perception of reality.
One obvious, or rather immediately noticeable, trend is the prevalence of shallow focus. This will keep the person in the foreground sharp, but all the details in the background will be blurred. This is not how we see the real world unless we forget our glasses. Deep focus cinematography feels more real to us because we live in deep focus.
Of course, not all movies can do that Lawrence of Arabia. However, there was a time when virtually all products achieved something called “tactile vision.” tactile sense It is related to our concept of touch. Older movies have specificity largely because the filmmakers didn’t have a choice. This meant that we could only separate the image from our physical experience by working only or primarily with analog tools. Digital photography, post-production CGI, and now the open abyss of AI have made anything technically possible, but as van der Linden emphasizes, these technologies in themselves do not guarantee that the resulting film will no longer feel real. In the end, unreality is a choice, and we movie fans should wish the movie industry would stop making movies like that. Even if we are not satisfied, it is for the survival of the film industry itself.
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Based in Seoul, Colin Mbemust write and broadcastIt’s about cities, languages and cultures. His projects include the Substack newsletter books about cities and a book Stateless City: A Stroll Through Los Angeles in the 21st Century. Follow him on the social network formerly known as Twitter. @Colinbemust.
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