If you think a film is dark, could you elaborate on that? A comedy can be dark, an action movie can be dark, a horror can hit the unexpected and be a surprisingly well lit, yet it is what it is, dark. In all of these examples dark can be used to define things that are unalike each other. You could say a comedy has self deprecating humour. The action film is comically violent or excesses in profanity. The horror dwells into the grotesque and violent imagery. Should you just assume what this means according to the genre, or do you find the criticism of saying a film is dark(and calling it a day) doesn’t cut it? What do you do when a film reinvents a genre or blends genres in an original way? My criticism of the YouTube film critics nowadays, is that some apply this term to define a movie in their review, and no one ever seems to call them out. I know the average viewer doesn’t want garbage, so why accept this? Ever since Sin City(2005), and...
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