01/08: Now This Sounds Like an Interesting Documentary Movie
Category: American Culture
Posted by: an okie gardener
Malls R Us
Ebert's review.
Is a shopping mall a sacred place? Not a question often asked. The provocative documentary "Malls R Us" seriously argues that malls serve similar functions today that cathedrals, temples, parliaments, arenas and town squares did in earlier times. Then the film slowly works its way around to the possibility that they may be a plague upon the Earth.
Ebert's review.
Is a shopping mall a sacred place? Not a question often asked. The provocative documentary "Malls R Us" seriously argues that malls serve similar functions today that cathedrals, temples, parliaments, arenas and town squares did in earlier times. Then the film slowly works its way around to the possibility that they may be a plague upon the Earth.
A Waco Farmer wrote:
An Aside: of course, there are some glaring ironies in that some of our worst moments as a community sometimes came in front of our court houses--but nobody is perfect...
But, anyhow, where we once spent hundreds of years building a cathedral as the center piece of our community, or later, a temple of democracy as a symbol of all things good about the USA and Texas, now we begin with the mall.
I agree: not good...