Gemini created this overlay of common film formats alongside the in-the-news Imax 70mm. There is an enormity to this format that, I suppose, only auteurs like Nolan could do justice do. Unless of course it becomes the new standard. New technology gets adopted this way so won’t be a new thing, but begs the question of what cinema means and provides to us harried souls. Nolan has described it (Cinema) as an unparalleled, affordable, and entertaining social milieu that seems to bring humanity into a shared dreamscape. And I bet there are theories that swirl around films and their influence on the culture and human psyche. When a new film like The Odyssey comes out, it’s a cultural signpost of things to come and ambitions to undertake, an odyssey (pun intended) of creation and imagination.
What creation is, what creation can be and what creation we leave behind – these are all excellent questions that we ask in our cultural milieu. Oh what better way to celebrate creation when select pioneers challenge the conventional wisdom and entrust upon the society a new way of approaching things, an ambition that refuses to succumb to prevailing wisdom and technological maturity?
Nolan’s comment about watching the movie only in a 70mm theatre has captured the zeitgeist’s attention. Is it maximalism or is it a sheer dedication to the art and a call, an ode to hark back to the original ethos of what cinema meant?
It is often said that a good fiction is something that the reader or the audience finds himself immersed in so much so that they can identify themselves within the protagonist. To get to a world where we remove all friction and the taxes that come between creating a fictional world on celluloid and physically experiencing it, isn’t that the whole point of technology?
When we get to a 70 mm IMAX equivalent of an immersive metaverse where we could plod along with Matt Damon on his odyssey journey, isn’t that the ideal end state?
Jargogled Impressions. 
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