How to avoid blurring the lines between fandom and criticism
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Nowadays, in the world of film criticism, film fans tend to gravitate towards those who usually lack film knowledge only to hide their lack of knowledge behind a cinephile costume. The cinephile costume term means that someone pretends to be a cinephile by outwardly having knowledge by fooling people into thinking he/she has knowledge to get attention to boost their popularity only to cause deception. This approach has made a lot of people think that they can placate to the masses by hiding their subpar knowledge behind this false image in order to get so much clout for the sake of being popular by purposely saying things like ignore the critics along with telling others that knowledge is not needed in order to be a cinephile since they think that loving movies is enough to be a cinephile. Being a causal is different than being a cinephile considering that they are two different terms in cinema to where there should be one that is chosen over the other if someone wants to know who th