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Critical Drinker On Wokeness, Politics, and Generational Resentment in Hollywood

Dropping In With Charlie Houpert

CHAPTER

The Role of Art in Storytelling

The purpose of any piece of art is to engage the audience, make them think and capture their attention. If you can do that, then it's a winner. Not every movie is necessarily entertaining in the normal sense but Shindler's List engages me and takes me on an emotional journey. And so that's the purpose of it and it succeeds in that. I think that the problem that we have with so many modern movies is that they don't engage their audience because what they're producing is hollow, vacuous,. It seems to be ill-informed or poorly constructed. That's the big stumbling block that they keep running across with modern films. They come away from the cinema fundamentally unsatisf

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