Why I Love Movies

Recently, one of my favourite bands released a new album. When I first listened to it I was a bit disappointed. It was okay but not as good as their last album. I liked a few of the songs so I ended up listening to the album a few more times. Then, one day I was listening to it and I just had an overwhelming feeling that this is the greatest album that any has ever released in the history of the world.

I listen to it all the time now. It connects with me. All of my senses are overcome as the music is somehow able to control my mood. If I’m sad it makes me feel better. If I’m bored it gets me fired up for whatever I need to do.

Music just has this power over us. When you hear a good song nothing else matters.

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Recently, I found a link to a photography website that had all the finalists for their annual competition. Most of them were nature photographs but there was a wide variety, with links to a lot of their previous winners as well. There were a few pictures that I found that were just way, way, way too good. In particular there was one picture of a lake within a forest photographed from on top of a cliff. There was also another one shot of a sunset on the plains of Africa.

While looking at those photographs I had a sudden feeling that anything in the world could be beautiful. All the stress and worry of my life seemed to slip away and only the beauty remained. I somehow wished that every second of every day could have that perfect shadowing, the light coming in at just the right angle.

The world captured in photography is simply….perfect.

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Recently, I was reading a book from one of my favourite authors. The book came out almost a year ago. I’m usually not the biggest fan of reading, so despite buying it as soon as it came out it has been sitting on my shelf for that entire year. I know I’ll like it, but sometimes reading makes me tired after 10 pages so it’s hard to get into.

Well, I found the motivation to pick it up, and oh my….WHY DIDN’T I DO THIS SOONER?? The world is so articulate, the characters are so interesting, everything about this story is so fascinating and unlike anything I have ever seen before.

At one point I realized that it was 5 AM and I was still reading. I just had to know how it ended and nothing was going to stop me. Taking a break wasn’t an option.

That’s what a story does to you. It captivates you. It brings you into a new world where everything makes sense even if it shouldn’t.

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For me, watching a movie isn’t a different art form, it’s a combination of many other ones. When I watch the perfect movie the soundtrack takes control of me, the photography puts me into the perfect world, and the story takes me out of this world.

Movies are an orgy of artistic pleasures.

When I watch the perfect movie I feel like I have been dipped into a bath of sensory overload.

When the perfect movie ends you just sit there staring at the credits, with a mind-numbing ecstasy and a little bit of sadness that you have been returned to the real world.