Cultural Interface

Last class, in relation to cinema, we touched on Cultural Interface. The evolution of culture depends on what kind of art is being made at the time and the evolution of art depends on whats going on, culturally, in society. It's an unstoppable snowball effect. Cinema can never be a perfect form of reality. There is always at least one aspect of a film that is exaggerated for the sake of entertaining. A filmmaker can see a pattern, problem, or an "elephant in the room" in his/her surroundings and draw inspiration from it. Reality gets lost in translation when making art/film. However, this synthetic realism inspires/effects the people who view it in one way or another, and can effect culture/society and perceptions of culture/society. So is culture another interpretation or reality?