The Pope on cinema

Tangentially related to most of what I post here: I recommend reading Pope Leo's short address on cinema: 

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable.  Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation...Art must not shy away from the mystery of frailty; it must engage with it and know how to remain before it. Without being didactic, authentically artistic forms of cinema possess the capacity to educate the audience’s gaze.