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Suddenly, The World I Had Scrutinised For So Long Was All Around Me, As If I Had Leaned Forward And Climbed Into The Television Like Alice Through The Looking-glass. I Had No Idea Just How Deep The Rabbit Hole Would Go.

In The Most Basic Terms It Was About How When We Experience Art Without Critical Awareness We Consent To The Ideas Being Promoted, Either Intentionally Or Unintentionally, By The Filmmaker. For Instance, If You Watch A Racist Comedian And Laugh At His Jokes, You Are Consenting To The Prejudices Inherent Within Them. Similarly, If You Watch A Movie Which Perpetuates Conventional Ideas About Race, Gender, Etc., You Are Consenting To Them And Not Affecting Change In Any Way.

This Idea Of Popular Culture Became Something That Belonged To Us Rather Than Something That We Looked At From Far Away. We Realized We Could Be Part Of It And Create It, Instead Of Just Being Consumers Only.

We've Kind Of Grown Up In A Post-star Wars Era, And What Star Wars Did To Cinema, In Terms Of An Explosion Of That Kind Of Blockbuster Culture. It's Thrown Up A Generation Of Geeks. With The Evolution Of Computer Games And The Internet, That's All Impacted On Us As A Generation, And Affected The Creative Element Of That Generation Enormously. So Whereas The Different Schools Of Filmmaking...

I Was The Naughty Kid That The Teachers Liked. I Bullied A Kid In The 1st Year When I Was In The 2nd, Who Then Hit Puberty Like A Plane Crash And Grew Into A Gorilla Who Bullied Me When He Was In The 4th Year And I Was In The 5th. That's Karma.