The Secret of the Wednesday’s Haul

The day after the Oscars and the feeling that the top movies this year were too depressing, Wells writes this at Hollywood Elsewhere:

“movies are not supposed to be pills that you take to feel better. They’re not travelling carnivals with elephants and jugglers. They’re supposed to be aesthetic journeys and emotional hikes that get us in touch with things that too many of us tend to push away (or anesthetize ourselves from) in our day to day. They’re supposed to be compressions and condensations that create indelible moments, insights and excavations into our collective soul.

“We’re only here for 80 or 90 years, we need to figure some stuff out before we pass on, and good movies are part of the learning-and-realizing process…”

(emphasis mine) I may revisit this at some point in the future. But for now, agree or disagree?

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