An Opportunity to Live more than One Life

 Why is it that week after week and commercial after commercial we are attracted to see a movie? Could it possibly be the unbearable truth that movies serve as an  excuse to leave life outside and enter a new one as soon as the lights go off on the theater. For any reason it is, films have been an important aspects of our lives.The reason I have these images on the left (which you may recognize) is to provided examples of how  films provided  the viewer an opportunity to enter a new role.

     
  I have met a couple of fanatics of the movie Avatar by James Cameron, that have completely submerged themselves with the idea that planer Pandora does exist and while the Army takes there time to release such information to the general audience they will start creating there own Avatar. Sounds like they have been playing video games for to long, right? But that is not it. I think a good few of us have heard at least a couple of times this line, "say hello to my little friend" . Guess where they got it from? yes, a movie called Scarface by Brian De Palma. Oh,        
and who has not heard or better yet seen the movie, The Notebook?  The ultimate chick-flick movie.

These are just few of the films that have shaped some aspects of our lifes. I mean, who did not want to travel across the universe and be cool with a extravagant new species, or be the ultimate gangster shooting down all your enemies with a mechanical gun, or have a romantic love story where your true love fulfills all you desire with  only the though that it might remind you that you once loved him. Movies provide you for at least an hour and a half a window to a different realm were you can be captivated with all your senses. It lets you explore your imagination as you relate to characters on screen and for just and hour in a half it becomes you in that screen living those moments. Flying ginormous birds or kissing your true love, you are provides with a chance to live more than once through the magic of film.