Expanding and Enriching Cinema Knowledge with Eghosa Osula

Let's face it, when it comes to mature content, people tend to automatically dismiss it as immoral. It is unfortunate that it is dismissed as immoral because people tend to forget that not all mature content is like that. In fact, some mature content can actually be helpful to us cinephiles as long as there is truth, context and great storytelling in the process. Plus, we should also be aware of the fact that there is mature content that is glorified and exploitative with no truth and context whatsoever. We as cinephiles should stick with truthful mature content and stay away from exploitative mature content for the sake of being nuanced. The first thing that we as cinephiles should look for in mature content is truth. For instance, if a movie truthfully critiques the dangers of war without glorification, then the movie will succeed for the better. However, if the same subject of war is glorified to where there is no truth only to turn the film into a dishonest war is good story, t...

  Italian Neorealism is truly one of those storytelling movements that many cinephiles hold in high regard. The movies and techniques of Italian Neorealism have definitely influenced so many filmmakers in that its legacy has never faded. It is important to know that Italian Neorealism brought so much change and innovation to cinema as a whole to where it is impossible to scoff at its impact. There are a lot of film movements that come and go but Italian Neorealism will forever remain influential in cinema history.  Italian Cinema was controlled by the censorship of fascism under the rule of Fascist Benito Mussolini. Mussolini's fascist regime had brought so much censorship to cinema that Italian filmmakers were making sanitized Telefoni Bianchi flicks. The Telefoni Bianchi movement was more about representing escapist and Americanized cinema. They had protagonists that were one-dimensional, endings that were happy, quickly resolved problems and lacked the realities of working-...