Objectively measuring a film’s widespread impact is such an abstract concept, it’s almost an impossibility. A film’s cultural resonance can manifest in any number of ways, and not all of them are ever expressed or documented. A viewer may not even realize how they are even affected by a film in the first place. Moreover, the audience that elevates a film to legend is not always the audience this film premieres to: hindsight and evolving perspectives have been key to the elevation of many works of high art across time. That all said, if you were to ask me how impacted I was by almost any Netflix original film, I can’t say with any confidence that I would even remember what you were talking about. tick, tick ... BOOM! (2021) I have for a while wanted to talk about N...
“But isn’t it time we stopped accepting in film criticism an anti-emotional, phony rationalism which we know to be not just harmful, but absurd, in any other context? Isn’t it time we plucked up our courage and allowed our hearts as well as our heads to go the pictures?” Raymond Durgnat (Films and Feelings) 1971