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Cinema hijacking the society

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My mistake, AC. I was sure I'd seen such a film (probably Air Force One with Harrison Ford), but apparently there is no film where the hero accesses a plane from the wheel well. I did find a story about a couple of wheel well stowaways who claimed inspiration from a film, but they couldn't remember the film.
Posted by Fester, Saturday, 6 December 2025 8:17:26 PM
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Dear Ezhil,

«Individual patents and their children do not live in isolation. They are very much part of the society.»

Individuals (both parents and children) are sentient beings - "society" is not. I rather care for the living than for the dead.

«Cinema is a highly addiction»

Cinema was a common addiction in the 20th century.
Perhaps there could still be some youngsters in 3rd-world countries who are addicted to it, but in Australia and other "developed" countries, the youth have by now moved on to much stronger drugs, which should be more concerning.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Saturday, 6 December 2025 10:46:13 PM
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I must've been about 12 or 13 when I first saw the original Die Hard Fester,
I had a copy of it on the old Beta video cassette.
I must've watched it 20 times, I think I could've recited the entire movie word for word.
But I only ever saw the later Die Hard movies once or twice.
I'd started to grow up, and was always out with my schoolmates, usually doing something stupid / mischief etc.
Being a little older I didn't care for being at home watching TY round the Christian family anymore, I'd saved up and gotten myself a dirt bike in high school, then it was girls, then a job and my drivers license and then a car.

I just wasn't sure there was a airplane wheel well scene in the later Die Hard movies or not.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Saturday, 6 December 2025 11:35:40 PM
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Comparing the different social evils is for the planners. As individuals let us confine ourselves to the theme of the thread. Can we all deny the fact that cinema has hijacked the society from the orderly life that we all learn in our studies and from elders? Cinema has changed the value system.
Whatever it is cinema is not essential for life. Giving undue importance to cinema has affected the normal functioning of the society. It promotes material culture which is not desirable
People start living virtual lives due to the influence of cinema.
Posted by Ezhil, Sunday, 7 December 2025 2:18:24 AM
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Dear Ezhil,

«Can we all deny the fact that cinema has hijacked the society from the orderly life that we all learn in our studies and from elders?»

That ideal orderly and God-centered life has been hijacked millennia ago, whereas cinema only appeared around a century ago.

Our elders were only a couple of generations behind us, and as I grow older, when elders are us (and no, cinema has never played a major role in my life), I discover more and more how less-than-ideal our revered elders were and how dishonest and ungodly were their teachings, sorry, but they did not really know any better.

Our studies too of between 3,000-5,000 years of documented history, show much cruelty, slavery, deprivation and wars, and how instead of cinema, gossip ran the show. Orderly life was harsh and cruel especially towards women, and what has now been partially replaced by ugly commercial materialism, which none of us likes, was then expressed as rampant worship of masculinity, which I wouldn't like either.

In the 1960-70's, the young has rebelled against this fake order, mostly in real life, not in cinema, but you can see the confused result in the film "Yellow Submarine" - yes, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", all guidance was lost as the elders' example proved empty and unworthy.

As much as we like to idealise, we will have to look much much further back into the past to find that ideal, times when human population was much sparser, times where the great holy sages were living a simple meditative life on earth, where peace and knowledge of God reigned, times when materiality had so little value that the line between material reality and mythology were still blurred.

Some call it the Garden of Eden, others call it Dream-Time.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Sunday, 7 December 2025 4:55:07 AM
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"Can we all deny the fact that cinema has hijacked the society from the orderly life that we all learn in our studies and from elders? Cinema has changed the value system."

Yes I would deny that.
But I can't even figure out if you're referring only to movies or all TV including platforms like youtube or only 'going to the movies' (cinema) to which I haven't done so in a few years.

I think it's more accurate to say that there are pro's and con's.
Good and bad aspects of television viewing.

I wouldn't say that society has been hijacked by cinemas showing kids movies over the school holidays, and quite honestly we live in a modern world now, the idea that 'TV is evil' is about as ridiculous as my newly born-again religious father was banning 'The Simpsons' in our house nearly 40 years ago now, because he thought it was a 'Work of the devil'.

Bart Simpson: - 'Don't have a cow, man'
Posted by Armchair Critic, Sunday, 7 December 2025 9:10:32 AM
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