Do you agree or disagree?
Summary
A stranger on the subway absolutely hates vertical video, calling it "one of the worst things that's happened in 100 years of filmmaking in cinema." His reasoning? "Your eyes are horizontal." Kareem pushes back hard, arguing that when you're holding a phone in front of your face, you don't need vertical eyes to enjoy vertical content. The rider doubles down, insisting he'd "absolutely love to go to a vertical film festival" and declaring that "cinema is still an art form." Their debate gets heated fast, touching on everything from movie theater screens to the very nature of how humans perceive the world.
Full Transcript
What's your take? Uh, vertical video? Vertical video has been an absolute cultural travesty.
Absolutely disagree. Um, it's one of the worst things that's happened in 100 years of filmmaking in cinema. Any phone is vertical, so why would you make a horizontal video? Because your eyes are horizontal. That's the dumbest thing.
No, it's not. Your I—you see the world. You see the world horizontal. My brother in Christ, you go to a movie theater. The screen is huge. It makes sense that it's horizontal. When you have a phone in front of your face, you don't need vertical eyes to enjoy vertical content. If your eyes were here and here, it would make sense. I'm sorry, you're absolutely wrong. Okay, are you gonna go to a movie theater and do you want to watch a screen like this?
I would absolutely love to go to a vertical film festival. You know, I happen to be somebody who thinks that cinema is still an art form. Cinema's races, all right.