cinema

Why we have to defend quality cinema

Banality and cruelty go hand in hand, are two extremes that are the same. One can say that the banality of what is there is more cruel, because it ends up exterminating the meaning and destiny. With its neutral and indifferent air hides widespread extreme violence everywhere, you can not fight in terms of 'institutions or human rights.
The intelligence and curiosity can stem this raging river that runs alongside our daily life? To you the answer but in the end, I think it's reasonable to think that everyone has the right to banality and therefore the disappearance. Especially these days. This general tendency to consensus and unique thought, we Italians are advanced in Europe. Not least are our filmmakers. Or maybe their movies. Certainly not all, but the contagion spreads, and antibodies are scarce.
Italian cinema is crushed by a relentless weight that keeps it firmly tied to the outcomes of the market. What we see on the screens must produce money. Do not care what we see, that is only interested in cost-effective for those who have invested money. There's more. The more the film is useless, produces more superficial, more useful it is in power. Therefore everything that puts the viewer in the face of doubts, questions, reflections is seen as a poison. Not to mention the young people and their first works, perhaps full of novelty, new ideas, fresh vision.
It is as if the new testing could no longer arise within the confines of action and feelings. One is born old and ages filled with boredom.
The image to come, if he wants to be free, will have to respond adequately to the proliferation of clichés, to 'signs of inflation, the redundancy of information with more than a thought. A new look for a new cinema.
This is to give birth, as well as the action, the mental dimension of the event. The dynamic image of the assembly, the sequence of actions and events are a challenge in this case, precise and destabilizing the system of representation industrial to commercial cinema.
The real problem of contemporary Italian cinema (and perhaps not only the Italian one) is that the "new" image to come, must pass through the streets of thought and not for the technology and performance. Only releasing new alternative energy and imagination, returning a political value to the concatenation of images, you can break free from the mundane, the useless. But beware, the cinema is a public danger, and as such must be consistently reported at lower and lower values. Defending quality cinema, defends his imagination and the quality of our lives.
And how do you defend? Going to the movies, choosing a good movie, rejecting those junk.

Bruno Bigoni