The Socratic Criticism of Writing

"This is a giant extended, you kids get off my lawn," he says. "It comes across as just another version of old man windiness about the changes of the world before him and it's not like the way he used to be." The critic was talking about films where characters are supposed to be ones you can identify with but situations aren't realistic in some way. He talks about movies as the duplication of empirical objects and the making of life and being indistinguishable from life.