I wonder if we'll all be bombarded by movie trailers and commercials in the next few months. I wonder how much vapid, self-referential, indulgent humor will be in them? I do not wonder how the box office take will stack up to the same time last year. I do wonder how much of that take will go to organized crime. I wonder if corporate magazines will have their movie reviewer bless us with their Summer Movie Picks, prioritizing our tastes for us. I wonder if we'll give each film an entire evening's worth of thought and conversation, eagerly awaiting our next escapist fix. I wonder about the value of popular culture. I wonder about $6 boxes of popcorn. I wonder what we value in film, what we want to get from it, what values we take into it, what values we come out with. I wonder if we learn anything applicable, or just some generic, fuzzy, already held values. I wonder if anything offered up for mass consumption challenges us to grow, individually and collectively. I wonder if we actually want to.
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