A conscious cinema

In an age of Baudrillard’s simulation, should cinema be responsible? And what should it be responsible of?

Representation over representation, simulacra upon simulacra, an entangled web, the boundaries between reality and representation blurred.

Cinema, TV, legacy media, social media, Artificial Intelligence, reflections of reflections. We may have crossed paths with the fleeting truth, without even realising, before it dispersed, without us even benefitting.

The moving image uniquely positioned to represent reality, the representation more convincing, more compelling, and thus perhaps more..  threatening?

Where does reality end and representation begin? A simulation, the source lost, a hyperreality.

It appears irreversible, we interact in a hyperreality, a collage of distorted media, afloat, curated, curation. A fabric of images, the seams, seamless.

Can cinema be conscious of the landscape it operates in? Can the story be conscious of the fallibility of its own existence. Should it be conscious?  Does it even matter?  

Is part of the story revealing the methods of storytelling? Do we raise questions or answer them?  

Can cinema seek the boundaries again, can it unearth the start and the end, can it find the light before it becomes a reflection,, the cause before the effect?

Can cinema be responsible?