In this edition of cinema issues we are talking about the idea that critics are out of touch elites and that they don’t understand the common man.
So this discourse is of course out at the moment as the people who loved the necrophilia porn that is Wuthering Heights say that anyone who doesn’t like the film is a snob/elitist. They apply this to anyone who has read the book and don’t like how this is an adaption in name only, but they scream it about the critics who gave it a bad score, asking why are they being critical of art why can’t they just enjoy things.
Therein is the central stumbling block of their argument, critics judge art to see if it is good or bad and give you an assessment, whereas you are asking for mindless consumption, mindless consumption is not what critics do. As at the end of the day you cannot recommend or tell people to avoid a film if you have watched it mindlessly.
There are a lot of reasons to dislike critics, the bought and paid for nature of them a lot of the time, the left wing group think, the virtue signalling. However calling them elites is just a bit ridiculous.
It speaks to your own inferiority, and you need to defend yourself liking something other people don’t, you go well I am a true fan, or oh they are just pretentious or a snob and they cannot have fun. In that not only do you show that you’re so fragile you can’t just accept another opinion but need to go on the attack but also show you don’t understand what critics do. They aren’t there to just have mindless fun they are there to assess the film. It isn’t the same thing.
If there is a choice between being a snob and being a mindless consumer I think the majority of people would rather be the intellectual snob than the mindless consumer. As one has connotations of intelligence the other has one of being low class and a bit gormless.
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