Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

I love film. I don't see as many movies as I would like but I see a fair number and I mostly manage to pick something good so it was with some annoyance this week that I saw somebody state that most popular film is moronic. There is some bad stuff out there but there are also some real works of art.
If we look at film as the art form it is we can assume that it will at times contain social commentary or inspiration or beauty for it's own sake. It might be enlightening, thought provoking or plain old entertaining.
Viewed as a pastime the movies are probably no more moronic than watching a bunch of blokes chuck a ball round a field, or trying to hit a ball into a hole or burning gallons of gas racing around a track.
I had a quick think about some non-moronic films and there are many many more but off the top of my head I could recommend these:

• Boy


• Ten canoes


• The Cave of the Yellow Dog


• Lives of Others


• Blood Diamond


• The Constant Gardener


• Once


• The Bucket List


• Hotel Rwanda


• The Kings Speech


• Into the Wild


• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly


• Samson and Delilah


• Water for Elephants


• An Education

And when it's all boiled down, what's wrong with a bit of moronic escapism?