Kushal Sood

I'm all but convinced that the film format is inadequate for enlightening its audience. Few films dare to venture beyond a 3 hour duration, meaning they often fail to explore their subject in any real depth, instead providing summaries or glossing over important details. I, like most people, would be loathe to sit through a long film that didn't teach me anything. In a cinema, we are captive to the film's duration; I don't even much like pausing films on DVD too often. Films, with a few exceptions, are no more than an introduction into the vast ocean of knowledge found in books and in the minds of scholars, innit. They can also be very entertaining - a particular favourite is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. The bit where Chevy Chase gives the finger to that trucker - he he - priceless.