>>1367166Because I like talking about things I know things about. I did my culture reps, but they're utterly useless to everything but casual conversation, so I apply them that way.
Also, having a deeper understanding of film generally makes watching film more enjoyable. Consider for instance the mise en scene, that is all the things you see in a shot in a film are deliberate, they are placed there with intention. Of course some directors pay more attention to that than others, Wes Anderson famously micromanages his sets to a ridiculous degree.
Take a film like Refn's Only God Forgives, it's him at his most unhinged, but if you refuse to engage with the film and don't accept that the Thai police chief that plays a prominent role in the film IS God, it's going to be a really bad time. Because only through the allegory does the film really function. And Refn knows this and tries so hard to push you towards realizing it yourself. This realization that the police chief is God makes the climax as heavy hitting as it is. The protagonist walks up to God and asks him "wanna fight?" and he just looks him down and then one of the policemen asks "do you know who he is?" and then one of the most brutal hand to hand fight scenes in any film follows. Of course Only God Forgives had a very mixed reception because half the critics got it and the other half didn't. It is a really good film.
Understanding film makes it easier to enjoy film. Of course mainstream cinema like capeshit doesn't ask you to understand it, it tries very hard to make you not think about it
But enough of that.
>>1367202>are nier replicans not human? even tho you can't tell the differenceNier is not wasting time on "are the Androids human" or even "are the robots human", it's a given that they are, so it can spend time on more elaborate questions.