Archive for July 2009
me and the movies..
When I watch movies, I plug in my earphones. That’s my way of shutting the world out of the fantasy that I’m about to step in. The second the movie starts playing, everything outside the screen stops mattering.
I love movies. I have a knack of falling in love with most movies I watch. So it should be no surprise that I loved Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. I loved how it had a dreamlike feel to it and how it had me in a trance even after waking up from it.
We love movies because they touch something inside us. Because while we watch the characters play their roles, we continue to search for reflections of ourselves in their fictitious lives. We feel their emotions like its our own coz at a level deep deep down in our subconscious, it is our own joy, sorrow, excitement, or loss that we’re really feeling. We love movies coz it is socially acceptable to FEEL while you watch a movie. Real emotions in real lives are usually hidden under layers of facades.
I’m not going to give anything else away. If you want to be blown away by some very realistic acting, a touching story and a lifelike story woven up in a surreal plot, watch the movie.
