Cinema is Claustrophobic

Roger Deakins and Dennis Villanueve's Sicario (2015)

Cinema is claustrophobic and so what ?

I heard a person saying "He doesn't watch films, he only read book because books gives him more imaginative freedom" and he tried comparing literature to cinema, and that is the moment I realize that dumb people exist in this world and that statement is rather absurd. It should not exist at all. 

It's like comparing a potato into a full blown $1000 smartphone. I'm not talking about filmmakers or authors perspective here, I'm talking about Readers and Audience. Cinema are not mean't to give a freedom of imagination to an audience, Cinema wanted to be claustrophobic.It's a moving picture you see ? Books and Literature literally wanted you to imagine a particular scene, or a character via their description because they are written in a text,. Films slaps you in the face with a scenes, or how this certain character will look like, its just a matter of anticipation of what will comes next. That;s why books are amazing and also that's why Cinema is fantastic, they are fairly different when it comes on approaching they respective people. That's not how cinema works my friend. I love reading, its one of they way I learn things, but it also taught me how different it is to a movie. I thought of cinema, when you first watch a film , its like (what they always say) putting you into a very tiny dark room and locking you up there and die eventually until the credits roll up. Cinema want's to torture you, it doesn't want you to give freedom as an audience, it wants to destroy you. When you get inside that dark room and once that big screen light up, It's either you died not knowing that cinema wants to kill you and you're false argument will turn into preposterous thoughts , or die accepting the truth that cinema is indeed a murderer and you're right about it.

Oh i love our Films. Filipino Films!

A brief thought about Philippine Cinema.

Florentina Hublado, CTE (2012) by Lav Diaz

The more i discover Philippine Cinema the more i stop worrying about it because little by little i carefully realize that movies in the Philippines is not the problem, there's plenty of better Filipino films out there than what we usually see, its just a matter of discovery, or how many have you seen. Let's start ending this atrocity of comparing Indie to Mainstream Cinema because Films have a respectful divisions; Yes sometimes we hated certain filmmakers about the way they making films, but then i suddenly realize they are not supposed to be worried to because if we hate it then don't watch and if we supposed to watch there's no problem about giving an opinion, just a year ago I write a practically "Rant" about what's going on to Mainstream Cinema of this country because my perspective as an audience hasn't been that wide enough but everything I've said there has a point so I don't considerably regret it. The main thing is if you ask me, Philippine Cinema is doing fine, the movies are doing fine, but the complication is the society, on how they approach our own Local movies, the lack of appreciation is what makes the difficulty in Philippine Cinema. It's not about the Budget, It's not about how big the movie is, It's all about how people see it and appreciate it. We are doing fine but We need to push a little more, so we can expand on how the society see our very own movies. The mission is to expand the vision.