The Media Today

Director Francis Ford Coppola was recently quoted as saying that ‘cinema is dying out.’ Everything getting released today is made too quickly and big budgeted, and that can only last so long. While this will also kill some of the companies in the recent recession our country is going through, people are not getting the full side to the story of what is being told. Only the opinion of what the storyteller thinks (and can be sometimes borderline propaganda). And this is what Adorno seems to be share the opinion with Coppola on. The media is only giving the people what looks like to be attractive, but may very well be bland. Not to say that there aren’t original, clever films made currently as well. But the chances of them being not produced independently or released widely, are rather slim. I think what Adorno is trying to say is that the media is more focused on quantity over quality. And by doing that, the audience might miss the point and not get anything meaningful from what they’ve just viewed; just a bit of eye-candy with no real substance. With the large amounts of irrelevance exposed to the world won’t get us anywhere and should be realized and fixed as a quickly as possible.