Oh, what it is to be an adult. We are expected to be responsible, we're expected expected to be predictable, we're expected to be ... boring. I don't understand this mindset. Why is playful and unadulterated enjoyment something limited to being a child? When was using your imagination to create a fort out of towels and clothes pegs deemed unfit for adult consumption? I would argue that it isn't - even if you may come across a little Peter Pan in the process.
Perhaps there are limits to how childish you can be but there's something to be said about unnecessarily gatekeeping what you allow yourself to do. Heck, billionaires are living out their childhoods while plundering undersea treasures, building rockets, building penis rockets and making cars do rocket jumps. Perhaps, only once you've got a few billion in your pocket, can you be allowed to be a child once more ... but I digress.
Which brings me to my latest point. I am bored of adult movies (not that kind, you dirty, dirty person.) Perhaps I should qualify: I'm bored of Western media, as it's usually padded with healthy smatterings of pandering, representation, agendas, spectacle ... oh, and, perhaps a competent story (once you've jumped through all the mandatory hoops enforced by minority groups.) It tires me. Which is why I have turned to non-western media and, shock horror, children's programs for my entertainment. I should qualify that children's programs don't get a carte blanche - you do still need to thin the herd.
To list a few recent children's shows which were far more enjoyable than they had any right to be: Sonic 2, KPop Demon Hunters ... and Blue's Clues: the movie.
Goddamn it, Blue's Clues. How you be so goddamn entertaining?
I hate musicals, I didn't watch old Blue (too old); and yet, this was a damn good time. It was fast, it was bright, it had energy and, even if the story was less than highbrow, I was entertained. There were member berries but they were added tastefully. I know that KPop Demon Hunters is the darling of the moment (and also a musical) but I would also say that Blues Clues surpasses it. It was a breath of fresh air to simply have a show simply be a source of entertainment. After watching these films I came to the realisation that modern cinema has fallen. Very hard. It has lost what made it great. It has focused far too much on spectacle and messaging and forgotten about the whole purpose of its existence: to entertain.
And, yes, I was entertained - just not by modern western adult cinema.
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