This should be part of our current awareness, as long as we are conscious of how the cinemas have hidden and redesigned the world.
This was done to appease the social and cultural paying patrons, whether they were conditioned racists or not, whose anger and rejection of a high-end movie, could have subdued, even the wealthiest studio to its knees. So we were shaped by movies like “Pick up on South Street”, a 1953 gangster movie with the late Richard Widmark.

From 1953, popular films like the mentioned and numerous others became mid-week shows long after their debut run. The important thing is that there were local conversations that could quote the scripts from movie characters, then internalise and colonise the anxiousness of the captured film mood into local innuendos, like; “Here’s some dough, go buy yourself a closet full of clothes.” Such films may have influenced the rise of the 65cc Honda motorcycles, as associated with the streets, and G-T Hustlers in the late 60s-70s and the fact of how that happened.
“They call me Mr. Tibbs” will always resonate with the generation that saw Sydney Poitier walk onto the screen, which is even more impressive than “In The Heat Of The Night” from the 1970s, making room for the Afro-American presence.

Fast forward to now, on social media, don’t look for an overflow of cinematic-like, intelligent, memorable language with depth. That has competed with the topics attempted to bring into discussion with the intent to influence. On social media, you will engage single convincing opinions that ‘should’ lead you to explore and verify whether what is said is genuine or not. Topics on Facebook, etc., command you to explore, while the cinemas offered you concepts and dialogue to go with it. These were already defined but were, in many cases, incomplete.

What we have not established now is the necessity to explore because everything we are challenged to understand today, through what is said in a few words on social media, has an additional narrative attached to it. Every magical body shaper, every potency tablet, whether it is politics or entertainment, do not be mesmerised into swift conclusions; explore. In its high favour, social media has the absence of rebuttals that reflect immediate opposing views.

The advantage of social media is its volume of worlds to explore while digesting an influence from seconds past. I refer to that condition as mental indigestion without a proven antidote. I grew up in a time when there were terms drilled into the awareness like- “Read between the lines” and “And so, compare to what is said as against what is done?” The absence of that advice today can easily leave you open as prey to many influences, including legions of cyber-crooks. Do not think for one moment that the items on your smartphone are bad unless you’re into something you shouldn’t be into- yep, ‘Big brother is watching you’. Source and read the book that the quote came from. You need to know what we’re talking about. Neither the S-Phone nor movies are going anywhere. But don’t make this technology your only source of defining knowledge. You need to read books. They’re full of recommendations for further clarification. This era we’re in is rooted in need to know, so get the ball mentally rolling.
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