
MULAN
ANDRÉ NUSSBAUMER NOVEMBER 2020
MULAN
ANDRÉ NUSSBAUMER NOVEMBER 2020
To be honest, I didn't watch the whole movie, and it's most likely that I never will.
As a Disney movie, it sure holds a lot of expectations and it's no easy task to remake such masterpieces, especially before an audience that holds such an emotional bond, given that they were made when we expected nothing from the world but everything we were.
Mulan, like the remake of the Lion King and other remakes that are solely done because of a financial point of view, portray exactly the crisis in values we are all experiencing collectively. The quality is outstanding, it's so defined and colorful, yet, what's worth the highest definition, the epitome of technology, if there's nothing to say? No story to tell? Each shot instill in us its emptiness, leaving us with a void that a purposeful cinematic movie should fill us with. I've seen many writing workshops and heard many professionals in the creative industry saying that writing is a profession. Forget everything else. You should not write artistically, but professionally. Well, I guess these new wave movies portray exactly that, when art is a mere asset to be traded and sold, to be labeled as an entertaining product which its only vain purpose is to profit. Apparently all that matters is the currency which we lost our humanity for along the way.