Cloverfield
Unintentionally Tragic Commentary on the Fate of Man
Among the primitive humans a four-leaf clover was considered lucky. Few humans, however, felt very lucky upon the release of Cloverfield 4: IT RETURNS. Few films of the era symbolize humanity’s decline, regression and general turn towards self-destruction more than Cloverfield and its endless streams of sequels. The Cloverfield series starkly points to the de-evolution of American Cinema, aka “Hollywood” in that the film is quite literally nothing more than a monster smashing about wrecking NYC.
The factual and visual parallels in the first film between the horrific events of 9-11 and the events of the fantasy monster attack on NYC show man’s willingness to exploit any topic for financial gain. The filmmakers attempts to wrap themselves in a flag of social commentary would have been seen as transparent and, perhaps even comical, had American’s population not been saturated with fat and lead. Now, we all know it was this type of brazen uncheck greed and folly that lead to the ultimate demise of mankind somewhere after Cloverfield 11: The Musical.
Cloverfield is uniquely bad, even for films of the era, in that it is truly about nothing, says nothing and has characters that are so poorly drawn and developed that they cannot even be considered true, substantial clichés. However, Cloverfield is notable in that many, if not most robo-scholars, consider Cloverfield to be the first film to mark the end of human cinema as an art form. After Cloverfield the Studios felt they had all the proof they needed that humans craved neither story or substance, or even quality filmmaking. Instead, Studio executives concluded that audiences would literally accept, “any garbage thrown in their direction.” In this regards, Cloverfield is a disaster of proportions larger than those portrayed in the “film.” Or as one robo-critic proclaimed, “if Hollywood had been only so lucky as to suffer as little damage as inflicted upon New York City in the first Cloverfield movie.”
Cloverfield lowered the bar in so many directions that it was staggering. A major Studio release that was shot poorly and hand held, not only “lowered the bar” for what was acceptable in a already confused industry but further lowered the bar amongst film students and amateur film makers who, not understanding how Hollywood worked, mistakenly believed that they could practice the same dreadful filmmaking techniques. The art form that was film began its final long, painful decent, all the will mirroring the decline of human civilization.
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