Am I the only one who notices something happening in the cinema?
Until recently, when we visited a ten-screen complex, nine of them were showing superhero films.
Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Antman, Aquaman, Assman etc.
The good guy in one corner, the bad guy in the other.
No subtlety, no depth.
Films so simple you had to wear glasses to see relief.
Down with Marvel politics!
Are people tired of cardboard rescuers? Are you tired of gnawing on the same bone?
The fact is that we are seeing more and more “adult” films in the cinema. With complex characters and plots.
And these films are becoming more and more successful.
It feels good.
As if people are finally realizing that life isn't like a wrestling match.
I have always said that cinema is a reflection of our unconscious. That screens are windows that allow us to see what's going on in our heads.
If it's true, this public weariness toward superheroes is good news.
Proof that people are tired of this binary worldview.
The Trumpists on one side, the Wokes on the other.
The ultra-right supporters, who would not like the government anywhere, and the ultra-left supporters, who would like it everywhere.
These extremists look similar. They feed off each other, like Batman and the Joker.
They burn with the same fire, blow on the same embers, dream of the same pyres.
Some want to censor “immoral” works, others want to censor “politically and ideologically dangerous” works.
Two enemies united in their hatred of democracy, of debate.
DYLAN AND JONI
Do you know Joni Mitchell's beautiful song “Both Sides Now”?
(If not, listen to it now, in the Judy Collins version heard in the end credits of the film Hereditary.)
The singer says that as a child she believed clouds were “angel hair” and “ice castles in the sky.”
Later she actually found them scary because they blocked the sun.
Now, she says, I see her from both sides.
The same applies to love. And life in general.
Who knows? Film fans might look for this.
Films that show us life in all its complexity and fullness. His difficulties.
I'm reading a biography of Bob Dylan. “This man has so many facets that he is round,” said one of his friends.
(“This man has so many sides, he is round.”)
I love this sentence.
Like the famous statement Dylan made when he was awarded the Civil Liberties Prize in December 1963.
“For me, the world is no longer divided between white and black or left and right. But between top and bottom.”
The verdict was shocking at the time.
Fifty-nine years later, however, she seems fair, wise and informed.
Like a “blowing in the wind” answer.