Criticizing the Critics
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
Well in that case you would better be
dead. Criticism is something that a person who of course has a command over the
language has the courage to express his/her opinion about a certain activity.
The world is filled with opinionated
people, but the ones who publicly display their opinions are critics. Every week
on a Saturday we see a dozens of them exhibiting their English in a newspaper in
form of a crisp, brief and an intriguing description of the new releases. Our eyes
are going through all that scribbling over the newspaper shifting our focus on
the number of stars that the movie has received. Anything less than three and a
half stars is presumed to be watched a month later on the television or on
torrent, I guess.
Now what we don’t realize is that
this decision that we take of not watching the movie is the
opinion/perspective/point of view of the critic who has written it. It need not
be necessary that you might feel the same about the movie like the critic does.
We watch a movie and then review it.
What we could relate or what we felt is what we try to share it with people who
haven’t watched it yet. If they have, there is a difference of opinions and then
this sharing of reviews turns into a debate of opinions. Imagine this on a
large scale. Now there aren't two people arguing on opinions but there is a
colony of critics imposing their reviews, their stars, making the others
convince why they are right.
It’s completely natural that a
certain critic might have a soft corner for an actor or a director. So, it
becomes very difficult for him/her to comment on a movie of that particular
actor/director because the critic has to stay unbiased by giving an honest
review. Now that’s a challenge.
Now, this is my opinion which I’m
expressing publicly so I guess even that makes me a, “Critic who criticizes critics”.
You can rate this note if you want
to. But a kind request, let it be above three and a half stars, or else people
won’t read it.
