Saturday, November 1, 2014

Movies date back to 1888 - When Dixon created a way to make evidence of motion on film. Since then we have built upon the idea of moving pictures with sound to go along this the picture. Very much like real life - In an hour and thirty minutes. Movies are a lot like TV in a way; People just like us going through daily life troubles, even if those troubles aren't daily for the average human. Movies are also a special experience, especially when seen in a movie theatre, surround sound and a huge screen displayed in front of the audience. There's the want to see the picture in the theatre maybe for that reason, but it's not ever that simple. Humans like to see things first, to see a life that isn't theirs displayed in a grander way than they ever see their life turning out to be. Movies depict a storyline that doesn't continue the next day, so, withing that hour and a half (given there is not a sequel), a whole story, a whole life, is basically written out for the viewer. Thousands upon thousands of frames flashed before one's own eyes in an ultimate illusion: that's all a movie is, an illusion. Not just in how the human's mind doesn't see each frame but rather sees it as a whole frame, but in what the movie is as one. The story put out is not real life, and never was. It's a way for real life humans to pretend like the happy endings and impossible worlds that movies put across are possible in at least some way. It's like watching a life happening - and being able to put the story into context of a real life.

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