The term "Media Literacy" has done irreparable damage to the movie reviewing community.
It has become an exclusionary, elitist, reddit-head term used only in attempt to artificially inflate one's own status and opinions while discrediting opposition by labelling them "morons" who "missed the point" of a piece of media.
Yes, some people do miss, even outright refuse, to acknowledge metaphor and subtext. The same way we don't always know the historical inaccuracy in Brave heart, yet we enjoy it on other levels.
I do not tell people HOW to enjoy a movie. I never have and I never will. We pay money to see them, we spend hours working to afford them; you are free to feel however you like about them.
Shade Nocturne
The term "Media Literacy" has done irreparable damage to the movie reviewing community.
It has become an exclusionary, elitist, reddit-head term used only in attempt to artificially inflate one's own status and opinions while discrediting opposition by labelling them "morons" who "missed the point" of a piece of media.
Yes, some people do miss, even outright refuse, to acknowledge metaphor and subtext. The same way we don't always know the historical inaccuracy in Brave heart, yet we enjoy it on other levels.
I do not tell people HOW to enjoy a movie. I never have and I never will. We pay money to see them, we spend hours working to afford them; you are free to feel however you like about them.
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