My passion has always been cinema since I was very young. Which is why I found myself extremely disappointed attending film school and meeting fellow film buffs.

When most of them would list off their favorite films nearly every one of the movie titles mentioned were always post 1980's, shot in colour, and without subtitles. Young people today seem to be less interested about the classics of the past and more interested with comic book movies, video games, blockbuster CGI franchises, remakes, reboots and sequels.

In a fast paced society made up of twitter updates, music videos, reality shows, adult cartoons, Saturday Night Live skits and the latest Adam Sandler comedy mindless distractions have become the norm. Most of the blame can be pointed towards the rise of technology and communication, especially our dependency with social media, the Iphone and the easy accessibility of the internet. Being constantly bombarded with useless information coming from all directions attention spans have diminished going down from 12 seconds in the year 2000 to 7 seconds today.

Being raised in a 80s consumer society that was heavily brought up on pop culture, fast food, and mindless television I completely understand this. But even I was saddened in film school when making the discovery that more young people were able to reference scenes of classic American movies, not by watching the film, but simply by being brought up on endless Family Guy parodies, Twitter memes, YouTube clips and gifs full of satirical quick-witted puns.

Today, if the normal movie watcher can't be patient enough to wait around for the arrival of Harry Lime in Carol Reed's The Third Man what will moviegoers be in twenty years from now?