Hollywood has lost something - the ability to connect with people. In a hundred years, film and cultural studies will look back at this period with fascination.

Hollywood has lost something - the ability to connect with people. In a hundred years, film and cultural studies will look back at this period with fascination. The visual art world (e.g. painting) is the avant garde of culture and we saw this decades ago by the total disconnect from normal people e.g. "I don't get it", the abandonment of beauty "that's messy", the embrace of chaos "my kid could do that" and the priority of individualised isolated views "that's weird". In this meaningless soup the political, radical and critical become a form of stability for artists and so the art becomes a way of transmitting this as it's a) a thing the art can say with some kind of authenticity and b) a thing that art can say with other artists that's in common with each other. But is it a simply a mirror of our lives now? Are our lives like these films? Do artists just tell it how it is? Is life meaningless, un-authentic, chaotic, not-connected, isolated, algorithmically determined, ugly, full of negative emotion and a stage for competing political messages? I think there is some truth here, modern life can feel like that but the postmodern viewpoint can actually help us in that we can see that the film makers are being subjective. Their art is the interpretation of Hollywood not the actual world. Hollywood makes bad movies because the film makers view the world as a kind of modern hell, and so, as people live their lives and see that they have love and beauty, a sense of right and wrong and family around them or at least inside them, they cannot actually connect to this view of life. In that I have hope.