The Shape of Cinema

2015 is shaping up to be the year of the blockbuster.  From Star Wars to Avengers right back round to Fast & Furious 7, cinema is set up to be big, brash and a whole lot of fun.  Yet some people aren’t on board with this.  Some people think that cinema is become homogenized, that super hero movies and Michael Bay now dominate the big screen and because of it we are losing all those special little films that not everyone sees, but those who do never forget.

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Boyhood and Plot

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Plot is a pretty important thing in the movies.  Not just movies really.  Books, games and even some music all relies on the idea of a story.  It is something that it is hard to go without.  Yet this week I saw what is probably my movie of the year and if you asked me to describe the plot I think I would seriously struggle.  The answer, it is just life, just make me sound like a pretentious arse (which I may well be, but I should at least try and hide it).  Yet if you ask me to describe Richard Linklater’s Boyhood in any other way, I really struggle.  Because it is just life man.

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