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A film-maker is a little man standing on stage, covered in chained and Christmas tree lights to your bullhorn. The filmmaker rants about his household, his government, how we can not get his girlfriend to climax, a novel he once read, the price of melons these times and his grandpa's nose hairs. The filmmaker makes weird noises insults the audience and spits on them. Individuals throw things and shout and occasionally someone shouts. Certainly, no one would pay to see this. Much less enable the into their front room.

Art's point was never just to make you feel good. Picture is designed to enlighten, to say all the things which you dared not utter

But art's point was never simply to allow you to feel good. It was to face you with nausea vision of yourself, a shrieking and all the monsters sitting with you. And you may be enlightened by it. Confrontation is the name of the game.

Apologies for the academics, but let's state the conditions of the argument before we take off our trousers. Story, since time immemorial, is the means through which we give significance to our being. As screen-writing mandarin Robert Mckee stated in his book, Story, "narrative is not a flight from world but a vehicle which takes us on our hunt for world, our finest attempt to make sense out from the anarchy of existence".

'Narrative is the means through which we give significance to our existence. Film, the finest vehicle for this, enables us to articulate ideas and desires '

It's the difference between individual and animal perceptions of world - a disorderly organization of simply neutral barriers around which to ********, combat and eat, or a complicated however profoundly beautiful swirling morass of thought, confusing emotions and troubling fantasies. RomanPolanski 's are the fictions that construct our world. So as the biggest, newest, most obnoxious, greatest vehicle for storylines of the last 100 or so years, we can inquire what is exceptional to movie that other persuasions of storytelling simply cannot give us. Well, it is a common experience; it's a mouthpiece for short, sharp statements. And from this large ledge we can state that movie permits us to articulate desires and thoughts; even fringe ones, as a society. This really is when films are at their apex and it is why we need them.

Richard Nixon is the true star. A movie that articulated a basic truth -Watergate age: skeptical power prevails. Several months after the picture was launched, Richard Nixon was pardoned by the grotesquely bland folds of Gerald Ford's recently presidential face. I am undoubtedly homesick for a time that I never saw, but films apparently used to be like this - no lengthier. The large curve that sprang from cinema of the 1960s reached its side that was far in the early 1980s. The oft-cited golden age had started when movie execs dropped the scheme and began throwing cash at youthful, unstable, wild eyed filmmakers to make unstable, wildeyed film.

Catharsis was offered by Hollywood films of the 70's together with an understanding of a changing world

There were movies, like Easy Rider and The Graduate, that not only allowed individuals to understand a world that is changing, but to possibly claw a measure of the experience of serious catharsis out. Fairly simply, that crowds are not alone. Films of the 70s did this, and they produced cash. New Hollywood continued on in this manner, until - ridden with caked and VD deposit - the brilliant young weirdos were eaten by themselves. Lodged high those filmmakers started making cloying pictures which lost a growing number of money.

But by then, Hollywood had found a new plaything - the kind of Star Wars and Jaws had shown to the money guys they didn't desire these , pretentious little pissants that were unruly, but could do things in a way that was new. A new manner which intended action figures, vertical integration, a return that is large and - with the birth of high-concept - films that might be about things and not thoughts. Say, a film about automobiles that discuss, quickly followed by a picture about airplanes that talk.

'As communities and society eroded, so did the need to speak about society and consequently job notions to the filmgoing crowd'

But it wasn't simply the newfound formula for achievement that the hit provided that lobotomised much of movie-making. There was cash to be made and 'what is it possible to do for your nation?' converted in to 'what could I get for myself? ' Little Reagans and Thatchers' rise all around the globe did not occur in a vacuum; it signified a fundamental change. Society's view eroded and so as communities weakened, so did the demand to talk about society and thereby project thoughts to the film-going audience.

Pictures in a way, continued to pronounce the zeitgeist. Regrettably, the zeitgeist wasn't about conflict, but about satisfaction. Money was trendy, cocaine was cool, Huey Lewis was cool, killing innumerable waves of third-world revolutionaries that are brownish was trendy, being a conservative was cool. And so the extreme politicisation that had characterised so much of filmmaking that was excellent had experienced a refreshing return to the John Wayne style of reactionary that was healthful blandness. A fashion that, in the theatre, told everyone at minimum they were good people and that, ultimately, every thing was going to be fine.

In reality, the best film about our era was created 50 years ago; we live in a world that makes all young people into The Graduate - deeply alone and infected with a mix of barbarous malaise and confusion. And it's precisely that which filmmakers should be talking about, perhaps not those automobiles that become robots. A great film touches you and reaches out. And even spits on you a small, making a mark. But it's, myself assure you, a spot that is marvellous.

'The sam-e type of bile that inspired the best movies of the last 50 years appears thin now; commodity is valued over artwork'

Don't get myself wrong - some of they were movies that are amazing. The sea change lives to this day, in the same fashion that a daring dose of neo liberalism characterises the governing ideology of western authorities - movies about alien robots that turn into cars mar our cinema screens. And there should be. A friend of mine stated the last film about his generation was Human Visitors. Don't say it was not. It was.