Sharas Blog

Black and white films are classic, aren’t they? They should be celebrated, lauded, and re-enacted by the new generation of actors and actresses. Well, that’s supposed to be the way it is but if it really is so then how come nobody actually watches these staples of film-making anymore? Tragically, there are places all over the world where the playing of a black and white film will send people to sleep. In some horrendously insulting cases men have even been known to say the once unfathomable: “This is really boring, let’s watch something else”.

It is indeed a slippery slope. We have only ourselves to blame for this descent in to the darkest recesses of human debauchery and behaviour, of course: after all, we decided to start watching colour TV and colour film, and we did so without thinking twice. And what would the stars of the olden-days say if they could see us now!?

This is my theory as to why some old people are often so bitter and angry and filled with a hate that does not diminish, even when their feet are met with slippers and their mouths are met with pipe; and especially as to why they funnel their fury in to the ears of the younger generation: they are annoyed, quite rightly, with how the black and white films of old, films of class and elegance, have been replaced by mediocre romantic affairs as provided by waste-of-space-staples Sandra Bullock and Sarah Jessica Parker. I mean, it’s truly worse than tragic, they may as well be a walking advert for Botox Manchester. Films now just aren’t the same. And it isn’t just this new world of colour that has impregnated the minds of old people with a rage so mean it would make the Devil seem like ’not a bad guy’, it is films which harness the nasty and opposing facets of technology and progression, thus making films as different in every single way as they used to be when the classic old black and white days were in full throw.