Expanding and Enriching Cinema Knowledge with Eghosa Osula

  This whole false idea of blockbusters not being cinema has always been supported by the more elitist, overtly artsy cinephiles who conscientiously believe that arthouse films are all there is to cinema. Think about it, as much as I love and adore Martin Scorsese as a director, his views that Marvel movies and blockbusters are not exactly cinema still feel out of touch to this day in the grand scheme of things. We need to understand that there is no one size fits all mentality to anything in life considering that variety is the spice of life due to the fact that life itself has plenty of layers that we have to explore for the sake of growing in any area of our lives in the process. Martin Scorsese's views about blockbusters and Marvel movies should always be critiqued in a healthy way without any knee-jerk reactions so that we can critique his views while still understanding where he is coming from at the same time.  For as long as I can remember, Martin Scorsese has always impres

  As cinephiles, we should always be able to understand that empathy is one of the most important things in our pallets in that it instigates us to express different types of emotions in ways that allow us to be emotionally connected with cinema. No matter what the emotion is, we should constantly express it whenever we watch movies among other forms of storytelling only to really interact to any storytelling form due to empathy. Empathy means to connect to others in a relatable way by putting yourself in other people's shoes as a way to go through what someone else is going through in the process. Empathy is something that should never be taken for granted in cinema and storytelling in general considering that it makes us embrace our humanity without coming across as submissive along with overtly feel-goody whatsoever. Being a cinephile along with having empathy go hand in hand and us as cinephiles should never take it for granted at all. By the time that I began to start developi