"Why Does The Focus Of Society Change In Media" or "Movies: A Retrospective"

[Seil]

So I watched Inglourious Basterds 2: Spaghetti Western tonight, but this thread isn't about the silent "D," no. It's about Robocop. And Sylvester Stallone. And Metal Gear Solid.

Yeah. I was watching Robocop today, because Robocop is awesome, and I was thinking "Why do most early nineties movies depict the future as some sort of horrible crime ridden wasteland?" Well, actually I was thinking "Robocop is awesome." Because he totally is.

Then I Was thinking, what about the films we've had in the past couple of years? The 2000's? Is it called the 2000's? DO I have to call it "The new millennium?" 'Cause that takes wa-a-a-ay too long to type. Imma stick with the 2000's. Anyway, in the 2000's, we had all these end of the world movies. ...Okay, we had just a few. A few-ish.

And it go me thinking - all the great films of the day had to do with important issues of the era; War, Corruption in media, Giant alien bugs, booze, STD's, Multiple Sclerosis, Racism, Alien invasions, and Alien Squatters, Austrian Future Robots.

Now, you could say that most movies have metaphors for fears and trials that regular people face every day. For some people, movies are an escape, a fantasy to distract them from day-to-day drudgery. For others, movies provide a window into the human condition, the subject matter mirroring our own phobias and faults. For everyone else, there's Robocop.

But seriously - throughout the ages, film, television and books have provided an insight into the human condition. Our art is representative of the state of society; it's hopes, fears, economic woes and foreign policies. When film began, we had talking pictures of what? A man sneezing? Because we were amazed at our own brilliance.

Well, a little because we just invented a new medium and that was all we could do at the time, but it during the Age of Wonders and the World Fair and Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Disraeli and I don't know anything about history. But I also don't know what the newest decade of film is saying about us.