Why do books feel more "real" than any other media? At least for me, this seems to be the case. I live my everyday life, and I read a book, and if it's a good book things will look and sound very vivid and real - especially with good fiction or poetry. No other medium has this effect on me.Cinema in particular, which should be pretty close to reality, feels like dishonest escapism: the conventionally attractive actors, stupid storylines, general air of pretentiousness of "arthouse" cinema... I'd save Tarkowsky and Antonioni but almost all the rest is unwatchable and feels incredibly fake. Plus, arthouse movie fans I've met have always been insufferable - not that book people aren't in their own special way, of course. But movie fans are just stupider.Anime seems unironically better: it's a stupid medium with stupid characters and stupid stories, but honest in its stupidity. If I want reality I go to books, if I want escapism I go to anime. Movies really feel like the mid medium par excellence.
>>25218499The Japs are adapting Senor Bolanos work?
>>25218499Take your bait to /tv/ fag
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>>25218499Nothing can capture the inner state as good as a book
>>25218499>Why using my imagination and set scenarios and characters in my mind is better than slop media? I do enjoy movies sometimes thou it's extremely hard to find something worth watching. I rather rewatch movies I liked most of the time.
>>25218499I agree which is why I’ve never watched a staging of Hamlet
>>25218507If it’s on /tv/ it’s bait. Here it’s not very controversial. This is the literature board after all, full of snobs who think cinema is a medium for smooth brained pseuds who think sitting on their asses watching another man on a screen sit on his ass and cry for 4 hours is somehow engaging in high art.>>25218499I wouldn’t even give those directors you named the exception, they’re probably worse than most other, non-pseud directors actually.
Good films are dreams.
