To the Editor: Re “Is This the End of the Movies?,” by Ross Douthat (column, Sunday Review, March 27): Why are pundits so eager to write the obituaries of components of our culture that add so many enriching dimensions to our lives?
The radio was supposed to kill books; the internet was supposed to kill the newspaper; television was supposed to kill theater; YouTube was supposed to kill television.
All of these joyful, irreplaceable aspects of our culture have survived despite pundits’ best efforts to bury them, and so too will the movies.
Like the novel, the newspaper, the play and television, the movies will survive. What will change is how we experience them.