Are good suspense movies being made today?
To be honest, not especially. The American cinema has been in a remarkably fallow period ever since Star Wars inspired Hollywood to concentrate on special effects and compete primarily for the teenage audience. As a result, films typically present good guys versus bad guys, without the moral ambiguity or serious themes that great thrillers have always embraced. Two notable exceptions are The Silence of the Lambs and Martin Scorseses remake of Cape Fear. What kind of movies do you see for fun/escape? Ah, but your question suggests that trivial movies cannot be equally as worthy of study. And they can, because popular, dumb movies can also be analyzed seriously and tell us much about a cultures values. But truthfully, I tend to avoid special-effects movies, which mostly bore me, and seek out foreign and independent films like Amores Perros or the Three Colors Trilogy, which deal with issues of spirituality and fate. Life is too short to spend time trying to escape from it. Click on the p
