Marvel? Marvel is noise. It’s content. The cinematic equivalent of eating popcorn for dinner and calling it a meal. It fills you up for two hours and leaves you spiritually malnourished. You cheer when the purple alien gets punched, and you call it catharsis. But have you ever felt anything? Have you ever watched Bresson? Have you ever wept during Tokyo Story as life’s quiet heartbreak seeped into your bones like rain on an old photograph?Real cinema does not handhold you through plot. It does not pause to explain. It simply is. Tarkovsky once said that film is “sculpting in time.” Superhero films, horror movies and all their kind, meanwhile, is sculpted in green screen, manufavtured in post-production in a server farm in Burbank.You see, when I watch Persona, I am engaged in a dialogue with the filmmaker. Bergman stares into my soul and asks: Who are you? When I watch an action film, I stare into the void - and the void sells me Mountain Dew.Cinema used to mean something. Now it’s a franchise. A universe. A line of Funko Pops. But you cannot merchandise human emotion. You cannot make a toy out of alienation.So yes, enjoy your little quips, your mid-credit scenes, your ironic detachment. But when you’re ready for something real, something that hurts, something that doesn’t need to wink at you every five seconds, I’ll be here.In a half-empty theater. Watching Andrei Rublev.Crying softly.Drinking an espresso that cost more than your Disney+ subscription.Because that, my friends…That is cinema.Now Anon, pull up a seat, let's play some Jefre Cantu-Ledesma in the background, and discuss some real films.
Watch a film you’ve never heard of tonight. Choose the one with subtitles. Let it wash over you slowly. Watch a short at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty theater. Sit somewhere you don’t usually sit. Listen to a filmmaker you think you have nothing in common with. Watch something in black and white. Watch something silent. See a movie alone. Then talk about it with a stranger outside. Be open to a story that confuses you, frustrates you, or makes you question what you believe. Watch it anyway. Watch without your phone. Stay through the credits. Think about how many hands made what you just saw. Text your friends about a movie you love. Ask what they’re watching. Watch something old. Watch something new. Let yourself feel it. Enjoy the reel.
>>215034516You walk out of a Marvel movie and you don’t feel full. You feel sedated. Safe. The edges have been sanded off. The villains? Redeemable. The heroes? Quirky, wounded, but lovable. The consequences? Reversible in time-travel sequels. It's the storytelling equivalent of eating at a chain restaurant in Times Square: familiar, efficient, and utterly forgettable.Where’s the grime? The nuance? The flawed, deeply human characters who make you squirm a little? Give me City of God. Give me The Lives of Others. Hell, give me a low-budget Korean revenge flick where the stakes are real and the emotions aren’t green-screened in later. Marvel doesn’t make movies for people who want to be challenged. They make movies for people who want to know exactly what they're going to get—and there’s something soul-sucking about that.So yeah, go ahead. Enjoy your Marvel marathon. Just don’t try to tell me it’s a four-star meal. It’s a Happy Meal with a toy inside—and sometimes, that’s fine. But if that’s all you’re eating? Brother, it’s time to expand your palate. There’s a whole world out there. Try the weird stuff.
Head to a theater that isn’t showing the latest blockbuster.Ask what’s playing that you’ve never heard of, and buy a ticket.Venture in without checking your phone, without expectations.Embrace the quiet before the lights dim.Allow the story to move slowly, to challenge you.Not every frame needs to explain itself—let it breathe.Experience the sound of real film rolling, or the hush of a small audience.Give yourself permission to feel lost, or deeply seen.Remain seated when the credits roll; think of every name that made it happen.Open your mind to a movie older than your parents—or stranger than your taste.Nod to a stranger who loved it too, even if you disagree.Indulge in the beauty of not needing to understand everything.
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