"Cinema is gone," Scorsese says. "The cinema I grew up with and that I'm making, it's gone."
"The theater will always be there for that communal experience, there's no doubt. But what kind of experience is it going to be?" he continues. "Is it always going to be a theme-park movie? I sound like an old man, which I am. The big screen for us in the '50s, you go from Westerns to 'Lawrence of Arabia' to the special experience of '2001' in 1968. The experience of seeing 'Vertigo' and 'The Searchers' in VistaVision."
Scorsese points to the proliferation of images and the overreliance on superficial techniques as trends that have diminished the power of cinema to younger audiences. "It should matter to your life," he says. "Unfortunately the latest generations don't know that it mattered so much." In
this day and age, no one will ever make a theme park movie like Lawrence or 2001: A Space Odyssey. The spread of superficial images and over-reliance on technology keeps young people from relying on the same kind of reliance as Western audiences in the 1950s. Movies to learn about another world. Movies only become entertainment, an escape from reality, and even a means of realizing that society tells you to "be an interesting person and have hobbies".
But isn't this kind of movie important? No, it's very important, otherwise why are there more and more film sources every year, but I remember less and less. The intrusion of mobile phones and the Internet has put resources at our fingertips, which is essentially a desecration of great works. It can appear on small screens, and I can watch it whenever I want, no matter if I am a person or a dog in front of the computer screen; at the same time, the price I pay is that I have to endure those stupid barrages, WeChat Interruption of information, useless complaints, loss of film texture, etc.
My patience was getting worse and worse, and the museum even fell asleep for a while in the first half. But I still see some people's emotions fluctuating with the movie. The girl next to me tells the boy next to me the story of the second half, and the way everyone is shopping and going to the toilet during the intermission. Called theater) is still a serious activity with a solemn sense of ritual.
In my heart, I envy the generation that spent their adolescence in the 1980s and 1990s.
Every time we talk about literary theory, teachers always say that this is an era of "dissolution". Lawrence couldn't reach Damascus, and he didn't want to go back to the squash courts in England. Everyone lives in the dissolution of the past and can't touch the future. We are eternal strangers in time and space.
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