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The problem with the scales is that the true masterpieces come along infrequently. So we are used to seeing mediocre stuff, and our sights slide lower and lower, and pretty soon all we see is just the shades of the mediocrity.So we then have "good" mediocrity, then "very good" one, and then even the "great" mediocrity.
Then there is another school of thought. It maintains that what you (say, Patrick) consider good is simply the old classic stuff, antique, so to speak, and today we have different movie art, different requirements, expectations, etc. So no one today makes films that some of you monocle-wearing old farts would love.
All this is of course incorrect. The truth is the great movies are indeed only infrequently made, but that doesn't mean the standards of true quality have declined or even changed.
Consider the "Faithless" and the perfect answer to those sceptics.
Bergman wrote the script, Liv Ullmann directed it, several great actors played and Jörgen Persson provided breathtaking cinematography.
The result is a true masterpiece by ANY standard. And - it was done during our lifetime, during the same era when the American Beauty was produced.
Patrick is right - if we keep calling many current films "good", then there is simply no room left on the scale for the likes of the "Faithless".
While it is true that gems like that don't come along often, we still must reserve the appropriate space for them both in our hearts and on that illusive scale.
Otherwise you get what the audiophiles would rightly call "compression" - or loss of dynamic range.
Follow Ups:
As I was a little tired from my buisness trip and as always to quick I missed a part...
So now let´s get me the thing straight.
- I do not consider all old classic stuff for good! Only the one who stand the test of time! from Hitch ( take "Shadow of a Doubt" to Orson´s " Rosebud " to Ford´s " Chevauchée fantastic" to Blake Edawards " Victor Victoria " to To be or not be " Lubitsch masterpiece( Whos has now such an humanity and sophistication, sex and charm, the perfect Champagne..yes WHO ? ) Bergmann´s oeuvre to capra idealism and love, to some of the William Whyler as " the Westerner to Billy Wilder´not all so consistent but when like a Vienness waltz to Kurosawa and Abel Gance to Cukor´s perfect surface( never going deep...only the surface...but how baby how! ) and all the rest of them.
LIKE IN ALL art, what is too much attached in the time they have been made will fail as having no vision for the past nor the future . Good things endure.
Of course we have the Frears and the kasdan ( who never fully delivered ) and Malden whose " Shakespeare in love " was so lovely...Newell´s work is mostly good so some of Lars and so on...
BUT the time of goodd film and good acting is over, quality all around you is only but luxury, and even high price will not guaranty it to you.
We live in a society whose level is so low than you can only wonder.
Your old fart.PS: Faithless I did not see, as I read some very bad review..but now it is time to make my own judgement, so I ordered it.
Comment to come.
I may have seen a part of it on tv after reflexion and looking on film critics..But anyway I will have the DVD, and will have the complete look.
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