FLIXX Cinema - Our Time Machine

Films of that era clearly capture intimately the reality of street scenes through minimal special effects, dialogue, and music. It's never, ever about the movie itself. It's a mirror how we see ourselves in a bygone era, a coming of age, a certain-nostalgia, perhaps a hint of Portuguese fado. It's about putting ourselves in the movie amongst the characters because whatever the era, our real life was just as much a part of it as the actors were in 'reel life.'
Boomers focus more not on the movie characters rather on the back-drop -the fashion and the street scenes that fill in the memory gap about how they looked, how they felt, how it once was. Bygone era movies are a tremendous convenience because we can travel back in time, at least in our minds, to refresh our memories.
Films of the 20th century area a reminder where we were, what we did, the daily rituals we had - high school, friends who some are still with us and others who passed too soon - and our elders and how they looked back then. There are those who were not fans of disco but the music evoked a unique, narrow tranche of time, the feel of the era, when NYC was both exciting and truly dangerous, - a dynamic dystopia. It makes them feel proud to be a survivor and acquiring a special mental toughness which explains why a certain generation was, is and will always be forever on red alert before the government designated colors to tell us how to feel.
For example, during the 1970s such violent and jarring films like Taxi Driver, the French Connection, the 7 Ups and a plethora of others, are a reminder that you can almost smell the pungent dog poo baking on the Naked City sidewalk in summer before the pooper-scooper laws. That gritty visual taste of impending danger made was cinema verite - raw, unfiltered - at its best. No embellishments were required. It was WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) cinema.
Some of today's directors have tried to recreate that bygone atmosphere through such short-lived TV series called "Life on Mars" in which a 21st century cop finds himself in 1970s NYC. However they've failed miserably. The program's overall aesthetic was accurate but the characters on the street looked more like models in a fashion show rather than warrior on a battlefield and the illusion of danger was laughable.
Today's cinema makes extensive use of special effects on the green screen which produces stunning visuals. On the other hand, these films don't capture enough of the real-life street scenes of today which will be lost - as spoken eloquently in the sci-fi film noir Blade Runner (1982) - "like tears in rain" - faux memories that look and even feel real but are manufactured. Future generations will view an urban scene in a movie in a way the director wants the audience to see it, not how it really was. It's an unintentional form of cinematic revisionist history - a great short term arrangement but a distortion of reality and a liar of history.

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