What i understand about films is that they are most definitely a form of escapism....after reading 1000's of words by loads of different academics about it all I just can't seem to stop thinking that maybe we should all just stop watching films and just live in our own ones...basically our life. Everyone should just create their own love stories, their own drama - even their own horror if that's what you're into. That's not to say I think people should go around creating their own sick blood thirsty fantasies - what i mean to say is that with films, when they are watched for the purpose of getting away for two or so hours, wouldn't it be much better to just have the desire and satisfaction you gain as a viewer to be satisfaction within your own life?
Maybe it's not worth thinking about too much but after watching a film - particularly when it's one of those idealistic Hollywood happy-ending ones - that sense of falling back into your own comparatively average reality, is one which just counteracts the past two hours you've spent sitting in a bubble of passivity. I love the whole concept of cinema and its escapist qualities but at the moment i'm finding it hard to sit through a film and be the passive viewer it needs me to be...to just enjoy it rather than constantly draw comparisons between fantasy and reality. Don't watch films with me basically, my brain fidgets.
Just feel like I have about a zillion thoughts about everything, it is so exhausting. For years I just wanted it to stop - to live a simple-minded, superficial life but I don't think that you can force yourself into being shallow, not entirely anyway. So i've agreed with myself that I'll listen to that hyperactive part of my brain some of the time...and just shut it off whenever else i can. It's like not being able to think in a straight line...that's the only way I've ever been able to describe it. Maybe no one else can either...I don't know.
Anyway. Joni.
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