Films: Are They Getting Worse ?
Almost everyone admits films and shows keep getting worse. Few understand why.
Nolan casts Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy.
One Battle After Another turns left-wing violence into spectacle and the prestige class applauds.
Star Wars, once a cultural tidal wave, run into the ground.
Marvel spends a decade building to Endgame, then shoehorns a weightless "she's not alone" into the climax.
The decline you sense is real.
The cause is simple: art has become propaganda.
Here is how to tell them apart. If the politics serves the story, it is art. Game of Thrones is an excellent example of this.
If the story serves the politics, it is propaganda. See: The Boys.
They tell us these stories are made-up, so make them however you like. But a myth is the moral reflection of a people — where a culture stores what it learned across centuries about what builds a world and what wrecks it.
Tell a people its myths are arbitrary and you have already begun to unmake them.
Notice the rewriters never build anything. They author no new myths that earn their place. They take the stories we love and drive them into the dirt.
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