“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.”
American films don’t feel like films. It’s a hard thing to describe — but we all know it; or those of us who remember what movies were like at least ten years ago do. The same way that cars are all the same colors, new apartment buildings all look the same, or young peoples’ faces share the same look (Gen Z has a look), movies all seem to take place in the same narrow, smushed range of color, performance and style. And it’s not an accident: I’ve been told more than once by Hollywood executives that they rely on viewer data. There is an international AirBNB style, and there is a national film style.
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