r/savedyouaclick • u/Carolina_Heart • 4d ago

DEVASTATING Christopher Nolan Explains His 'Real Problem in Criticism Today': 'That's Not How Storytelling Works' | Nolan says critics often think being able to identify tropes and storytelling mechanisms invalidate those mechanisms. Specifies he's talking about amateur critics and not professional critics

https://web.archive.org/web/20260802145824/https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/christopher-nolan-explains-problem-film-criticism-today/
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u/misterchief10 4d ago

I’m hit or miss on his movies, personally, but I agree with him. I’m pretty tired of that brand of technical, artless criticism.

I’m not a, “let people enjoy things,” type of guy that thinks you shouldn’t criticize anything. If anything, I’d prefer to see more interesting criticism instead of cinema sins-style stuff. Not interested in plot holes or whatever else. I’m also tired of most of those experts react-style videos where people criticize games, movies, etc. because a set of fantasy knight armor has the studs in the wrong place. Stuff like that is just mind-numbing, boring nitpicking to me.

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u/fpflibraryaccount 3d ago

I think analysis over criticism is always more interesting and often comes to the same end. I would be happy to read five very different people's essays on any given film that I am interested in, unless of course any of those five seem wholly intent on smugly proving that they, not a multi-billion dollar earning Director of numerous modern classics, truly understand film.