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Put Artistic Value Back into Movies

By Mario Miller
On November 2, 2013

Filmography is one of the most well-known arts of expression in the 21st century, but it seems that films do not contain as much value now as they did in the last century.
I am a habitual movie watcher. I love films and always felt like movies helped raise me when my mom or dad wasn't around to scold me about something.
From "Titanic" to "Boyz n the Hood," I've watched almost all of the film gems of the last century and absolutely love them, but with films these days, I don't receive the same feeling that I do from movies made before 2004.
I feel that today people are too concerned about making a dollar or having a movie in 3-D instead of the art aspect of films. Nobody wants to think out of the box anymore. Every movie shown in theaters today is just a raunchy, low-end comedy or you have action movies that are just remakes of movies more than 15 years old.
Don't get me wrong though. There are still motion pictures that can make it to the big screen and still have meaning and don't fit the two examples of movies today. For example, my favorite movie this year is "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," a great artistically made movie about the life of a boy who was alone throughout all of high school.
The film shows how he makes friends with two strangers, and it goes deep into the boy's mind and past, producing an awesome plot without having guns fired everywhere or the same corny "kicked in the crotch jokes."
I feel like once we regain the sense of artistic value in film it can better our culture as humans-that is, if it is up to the masses in theaters.
We can spark up the brains of people through another outlet again. Then who knows what other aspects of entertainment can obtain artistic value through influence of film?
 


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