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Narrative works can make use of otherworldly features without being remotely escapist. Shakespeare and mythology are fine examples of this. Science fiction is
by OO000oo 3y ago
Narrative works can make use of otherworldly features without being remotely escapist. Shakespeare and mythology are fine examples of this.
Science fiction is historically not escapist at all, but that has somewhat changed.
These days we have adults everywhere who will openly exclaim their plain adoration of dragons and robots and hobbits devoid of any particular meaning or social value. They just merely love dragons and robots and hobbits. This is escapism and it's historically unprecedented.
- watwut 3y agoShakespeare was escapist. So was Asimov. So was mythology.
- OO000oo 3y agoNot technically wrong, but it is one thing to decorate the complexities and contradictions of the human experience, and quite another to distract from the complexities and contradictions of the human experience. I think we both know which one is happening today.
- watwut 3y ago> decorate the complexities and contradictions of the human experience That is not something American cinema ever done tho.