There are comments like this defending escapism all over this thread, and I think theyre missing the point. Escapism is fine, just as dark, depressing, morally

There are comments like this defending escapism all over this thread, and I think theyre missing the point. Escapism is fine, just as dark, depressing, morally revelatory films are. The comment is about the degree to which one type of movie is relatively dominant in mass culture: the corresponding concern would be equally valid if (eg) brooding meditations on the nature of evil grabbed as much of our cultural mindshare as shallow escapism does today. Its not a commentary on the individual taking a moment to relax, but rather on a shift in tendency across the population