Response to the Futurist Manifesto

In this piece the author is tired of looking to the past, so much that he shows a strong dislike for anything that represent the time before him. He is aggressive and is passionate about destroying all art and museums in Italy. I agree that new generations should look to the future and advance forward, creating and building new things. However, I have to say that the past is there to teach us how to improve our future, and therefore it should be respected and appreciate it. In film I think there has been many advances, sometimes it can be hard to connect them to the past. Film has gotten to where it’s now thanks to people like Alfred Hitchcock for example, and many other who devoted their lives and careers to exploring this field. We have been able to move forward thanks to what others before us started it.

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