INTERESTING: WHICH MOVIES? Just as there is a difference betwen fiction and lite

INTERESTING: WHICH MOVIES?
Just as there is a difference betwen fiction and literature, there is a difference between a good movie – entertaining and interesting, and a good mythology – deep and meaningful across time. Or what those of us in the last generation educated in the high arts call ‘high art’: mythology.

And, I can’t really identify many.

Certainly:
2001 (new divinity, infinity)
Blade Runner (life)
Its a Wonderful Life (moral choice)
Gone With The Wind (love amidst chaos)
The Godfather (loyalty)
Lawrence of Arabia (grand heroism)
(ie: long time preference)

And Maybe:
Gladiator / Kingdom of Heaven (honor)
Count of Monte Christo (dedication over time)
Dances with Wolves (simplicity)
Apocalypse Now / Saving Private Ryan / Full Metal Jacket / Platoon (war)
No Country for Old Men (evil, the devil, temptation)
(ie: aristocracy)

And Not:
I’ve come to understand the ‘mythology’ of 20th century literature, perhapse going back as far as Dickens, is largely the work of seditions by sympathizers with communism and socialism in their hatred of modernity – and not a contribution to western literary history. Just as the woke movement has destroyed western myth, literature, and entertainment since 2009. So while I want to recommend many other films, such as Citizen Kane as a work of cinematic innovation – thats all those otherwise great works might be.

As in many things, this is a class thing. 😉

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