I WAS NODDING WITH EVERY SINGLE LINE. noam i agree so much it is not even funny, thank you so much for writing this because now i'm equal parts fuming that this is happening and excited that someone is finally talking about it. i find this dumbing-down epidemic in media truly concerning and i don't even know what we can do to escape it
thank you for reading laura! it's so upsetting to see this happening more and more but i truly believe that the way to escape it is through consciousness, through not consuming these type of things (and also showing their producers that people are kinda tired of feeling their intelligence belittled). we can choose which media enters our consciousness and we can choose better!
Omg yes. I was recently thinking about this again when I finally got around to watching Materialists and had to close it like 20 minutes in. The themes in art are being screamed into our ears and silencing the actual art in the art.
i loveee the way you put it because that's exactly it!!!! letting the audience to make meaning is perhaps the most important and inherent part of art and by taking that away we're left with yet another piece of media that looks exactly like all others
I agree with you on the “dumbification of media”, although I liked the Barbie movie — i think it was something different from what the movie industry had produced in the last decades. Would you mind if I ask why you call Margot Robbie “the embodiment of oppressive western beauty standards”? I just couldn’t understand the point you made there.
I WAS NODDING WITH EVERY SINGLE LINE. noam i agree so much it is not even funny, thank you so much for writing this because now i'm equal parts fuming that this is happening and excited that someone is finally talking about it. i find this dumbing-down epidemic in media truly concerning and i don't even know what we can do to escape it
thank you for reading laura! it's so upsetting to see this happening more and more but i truly believe that the way to escape it is through consciousness, through not consuming these type of things (and also showing their producers that people are kinda tired of feeling their intelligence belittled). we can choose which media enters our consciousness and we can choose better!
Omg yes. I was recently thinking about this again when I finally got around to watching Materialists and had to close it like 20 minutes in. The themes in art are being screamed into our ears and silencing the actual art in the art.
i loveee the way you put it because that's exactly it!!!! letting the audience to make meaning is perhaps the most important and inherent part of art and by taking that away we're left with yet another piece of media that looks exactly like all others
I agree with you on the “dumbification of media”, although I liked the Barbie movie — i think it was something different from what the movie industry had produced in the last decades. Would you mind if I ask why you call Margot Robbie “the embodiment of oppressive western beauty standards”? I just couldn’t understand the point you made there.