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What misgivings does Bergman have about the contemporary film industry?

The contemporary film industry doesn’t want to understand the fact that everyone learns from the other and that this is a continuous process. The current generation of film makers have the mentality of secluding oneself and ideas from everyone else. They take it to be cheating or creating plagiarised content. But in reality, it is a fact that we are all a community of people and we have to learn from each other. Learning from one another is the ultimate source of knowledge for us.


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