Movies and all the multimedia technologies (YouTube, series, TV, cinema, ...)
are basically emotion manipulation. A narrative can become very effective
through the context-free cropping of a picture, trimmed view of the timeline,
and manipulative soundtracks that tune one's emotion to exactly what the
composer wishes. A movie is looking at a world view through the eyes of the
narrator without judgments. One does not bring their sense of critique and
fact-checking into a movie and accepts the world as it is (or how are they to go
on watching Star Wars, for example?).
It is the basic assumption of a story not to ask it and hold it accountable.
Yet, it leaves you with new beliefs and world views, because of how powerful
that is. We are basically ill-equipped to deal with the high levels of emotions
that are shot at us. That is also true for most other things that we consume
today. Today's POP music is filled with emotional triggers, and every single
note in them is in such a way that overflows the emotional capacity of ours.
This only results in a sense of overwhelm.
I find the classical music way "healthier" as its confined environment; the
orchestra and all classical music require human and physical realities to shape
it. You cannot use synthesizers and digital audio workstations; you have to
perform with real humans in real places. This makes it human-level. That limit
must be present in the media as well. Writing brings a certain limited
environment to the play, and our writing skills become that of a good performer.
How someone becomes a virtuoso.
I'm however contemplating what LLMs are going to do with this. Having a tool
that can refine your writing and rhetoric to the highest level might as well
mean that such abilities shall no longer be any indication of wisdom and skill.
And if that becomes the case, measuring content becomes harder. Devising such
things even harder.