“Colourisation does not bring us closer to the past; it increases the gap between now and then. It does not enable immediacy; it creates difference.” I don't b

“Colourisation does not bring us closer to the past; it increases the gap between now and then. It does not enable immediacy; it creates difference.” I don't buy this argument. I feel like the reason these upscaled videos are going viral is because it makes the events in the footage feel like something that actually happened, rather than an old-timey silent movie. Having said that, I'm not always a fan of upscaled historical footage. I think the best argument against it is that it's a distortion of reality. Regular people don't have the technological sophistication to understand that what they're seeing is the result of a machine filling in the gaps and making a "best guess". They assume all the new information they're seeing was already hidden somewhere in the original image and just had to be pulled out. I think if everyone was on the same page as to what these videos were, there wouldn't be a problem.