2:9:25
“Shallowness that asks to be taken seriously is an embarrassment…The movie industry is such that men of no taste and no imagination can have an incalculable influence…Some people have impenetrable defense systems.”
-Pauline Kael, 1974
*Now it’s the entire culture and all of our so-called artists and thinkers, who have no taste, imagination, and “impenetrable defense systems.” And yet, their influence continues. And they remain the same. Also, it’s astonishing that something this critical and damning was expressed in a movie review for The New Yorker.