Not understanding something doesn’t make you stupid.

Then there is a Movie or Anime I like that is hated on by people who say they couldn't follow it or understand what was happening in it, and then I talk about how I found it pretty easy to understand actually.  It’s difficult for that not to be taken as me claiming to be smarter then the people who didn’t understand. It doesn't help that I usually lack the ability to explain what I understand about it. 

The thing is I understand that intelligence isn't linear, I’ve partly based my entire ideology on understanding that. Herman Cain was a brain surgeon, something you cannot do without being very very intelligent in very specific ways.  But that didn’t stop him from sounding like a dimtwit when he discussed politics while trying to run for President. 

There are in fact Anime and Movies I don’t understand, I don’t see the deeper meaning that other people do. But instead of insisting they’re seeing something that isn't there in order to feel smart, I simply trust that they saw something I can’t. A prominent example of that is Shoujo Kageki Revenue Starlight from 2018. I feel like I'm the only person in its hypothetical target audience who didn’t enjoy it or get it, and that’s fine.  

Part of the reason why it’s so easy for me to understand when it comes to this is because others do believe those who didn’t understand something they did objectively are stupider than they are. 

I unsubscribed from Rick Worley’s YouTube channel when he made his big J.K. Rowling simp fest. But the other day I decided out of morbid curiosity to see what he’d talked about since and the one that most caught my attention was a video on Megalopolis.  I like Megalopolis, I think it’s a neat, fun movie and I understood the Becket reference. But to Rick Worley people who found that movie difficult or "impenetrable" are just dumb or intellectually lazy. And also to him unironically liking a movie like this obviously mutually exclusive with unironically liking Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, well I unironically like both.

Worley has built his whole personality on a belief that big corporate movies like Superhero movies can’t be real Art, and to me gate keeping what qualifies as Art is fundamentally reactionary thinking.  Even the most corporate mandated micro managed films are still made by people who are putting some of themselves into what they are making. 

And the thing is a movie like Megalopolis is no less a Corporate Product, it’s just that the Brand they are milking is Francis Ford Coppola rather than a Comic Book. 

I firmly reject the notion that Bad Art exists, all Art is Good, you just aren’t going to like all of it. 

The notion that most movies or Anime or anything else are bad and the good ones are rare Jems you have to fish out from all the slop and trash is a symptom of the justifying ideology of Capitalism.