Cinemas Now and Then

The idea of a cinema nowadays is surely different than the concept of a cinema from way back then. Based on what I have grown up on, negatively, films these days are more violent, and more obscene.
Films these days are more violent. Wars like these, wars like that; murders, ghost killings, riots and gun wars also. And even children can watch these films.
Films now are also obscene. They say this generation is much liberated than before. But still, they shouldn’t produce films like that because we live in a moral world (well at least most of us). Again these films reach children. Their innocence is diminishing because of films like these.
Films nowadays are often unreal. They often make films that are very untrue. These films are not so negative but they create these films just to get our minds out of this world and into the world of our imaginations. Harry Potter, Transformers, X-men, fantastic four. These are films that are so-so.
Cinemas way back then are often about the life of this, the life of that. There are some films before that are also violent and obscene but they are more refined and more wholesome than the films now. They are also about fiction but not that much of like this century.
And when it comes to the birth of cinemas way, way back then, cinema really changed hugely.
On the other hand, what’s good in the films these days, films are already synchronized with the technology so when technology’s up by a notch, films also follow.
Technology has done well in facilitating the cinemas. If before, George Melies had so much difficulty stretching a film up to 15 minutes, because of technology, we can now watch an hour and a half film with no worries. And if before, there is only one angle shot; now there are more angles that can be seen on a film, thanks to Edwin Porter for the utilizing film editing.
More changes the cinema had experienced. The coming of the sound, and the coming of colors. Thanks a lot to the Warner Brothers, “The Jazz Singer” was watched and heard for the first time. Thanks also to Herbert Kalmus, “Gone with the Wind” was the first film in Technicolor. Since then, it’s history. Technology upgraded the quality of the cinema. But of course if it weren’t to them who helped and discover those ideas about the films, we wouldn’t be having any fun watching films because there won’t be films to watch. So therefore I conclude that we owe them what films we are watching right now. We won’t see Harry’s different angles if it wasn’t to Porter’s contribution to cinema right. So we should never forget them.
Yes, the cinema had changed. But beside the negative changes, as a whole, the cinema had changed for good. That’s right. Films now are more fun and relaxing to watch. And even if there are a lot of changes done in the cinema today, its essence is still there. And it will never change. It will always be for the sake of the entertainment of the people.