Etymology

absolute cinema

Today it means: Cinema that is personally considered to be outstanding. Full definition →

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The story

From an image macro of American filmmaker (born 1942) Martin Scorsese captioned with the phrase. In 2022 and 2023, the image and phrase began to circulate around Twitter as an Internet meme.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.