What is the job of a film critic? It’s quite simple. They have to persuade as many people as possible to watch good films. If they don’t succeed, they start complaining (it’s happened to me too). In an article from last week, Roger Ebert already sees a dark age dawning because young people in the USA prefer to watch “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” instead of “The Hurt Locker”: “And this dumbing-down seems more pronounced among younger Americans.”
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Glenn Kenny, who is not usually particularly optimistic, has now rejected this cultural pessimism. He talks about how he used to want to change the taste of the masses himself. Until he realised that he couldn’t really influence it: “I also learned that there wasn’t a whole hell of a lot that one could do about mass taste, particularly if you didn’t really share it.” His conclusions: 1. getting angry about other people’s stupidity may have a therapeutic effect in the short term, but it doesn’t achieve much. 2. the masses didn’t used to be any more intelligent. I can only agree with that.