Megalopolis

Where is the proof of our beauty without being inscribed onto a scroll, painted onto a canvas or projected onto the screen? The evolution of our expression has only enhanced yet complicated the projection. How do children manage in a world derivative of everything that has been, how do children manage in a world constantly accelerating in complexity, how do children manage in a system designed to exploit them? Many jumping into Megalopolis are children, they're jumping into a collapse of time that's far too familiar. The truth is, the children do not care about Shakespeare, the children do not care for people immortalised in stone and the children do not care for the aristocracy benefiting from aforementioned systems. Luckily for us, Coppola has his finger on the pulse of the cinematic art-form, and gives the children not what they want, but need. Megalopolis stands against what we think we want from a movie. Quotes pour of out character's mouths as they hide in a shell constructed of obstinance and choices are made beyond consideration for audience. Coppola turns concrete to dust then presents audiences with the Megalon; fundamentally more human, a material made of dreams and soul rather than structure and logic. The farce and detachment from convention is invigorating, free-flowing and sporadic; Megalopolis feels alive and fresh. With the backdrop of Ancient Rome crashing into New York, we're served a crossroads between what we had, have and could. Coppola leaves the decision in our hands as children to use his Megalon or continue to build our world out of concrete. I say, turn it to dust. Whether you hated or loved Megalopolis, I know you love film. I know you love movies and art and people and I know you love these things getting better. I know you don't want to live in Ancient Rome, and so why do you want to live in 21st-Century Western civilization? If we can stand by Coppola on something it's his investment in our future, it's his development of our beloved art form past what he has defined once with The Godfather. It's to see that before The Godfather there was a different definition for film. It's to see every definition is man-made, and if man's definition is gospel then man is God, you are man, and you are God.