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Why do we Love Movies? As a Phillips ad says, "They make us cry, they make us laugh, movies touch us like nothing else can…" This statement perhaps is the most accurate one ever mentioned in an advertisement. Movies touch us on a completely different medium. Perhaps one of the reasons movies move us so is that many of the plots are our own fantasies. Movies have been a way of showing human fantasies, and how they play a part in our lives. Classics such as "Superman" show how the human desires are always integrated into movies. Stories of superheroes are all inspired by our wishes. The wishes we all made as four year-olds, of having supernatural powers and ability to do nothing bad. Our dreams have been shown in movies such as "Pleasantville." Such movies are inspired by our mind. These movies are not fantasies we have; yet, they are something we think about. "Pleasantville," for instance, a movie about the perfect world. People do not usually dream of such things, but when unfortunate incidents happen, they do think about such things. Trivial things such as one small thought evoke movies that will eventually become classics. Human curiosity at nature is another common thing incorporated in movies that we have all come to love. "The Wizard of Oz," is a movie that supports this statement. We have always wondered what lay on the other side of the rainbow, and movies such as this are just our interpretation of the questions that have puzzled us for years. Emotional movies also seem to draw more crowds than others. In life, failure is an inevitable part, and in many lives is experienced more than success. Movies that have a deeply emotional storyline amplify these failures, and comfort people going through a slump. Another reason these movies are popular with movie patrons is that they seem to emphasize the emotional connection. Traditional plots such as this are beginning to slowly disappear from the theatre today. Plots that we have loved and have made movies so important to us are starting to vanish. The technological era is leaning more toward movies that are using digitized sound and picture. The movies are starting to compromise story for jazzy special effect(s). Fundamental movies are starting to be lost in the dizzying special effects. Movies like "Godzilla" and "Armageddon" are perfect examples of this disturbing trend. People are beginning to see this trend too. The booming effect of these movies is becoming extremely monotonous, and the connection that we valued so much is slowly being degraded. "Enhanced Movies," as I call them, symbolize an ever-growing threat to the principles this industry was based on. Movies, undoubtedly, affect our lives, changing it in so many ways. Movies have always had one unidentified subliminal connection with the human mind. With the new technological numbers that are being done on movies are threatening that message more everyday. That, though, has not occurred yet, and let us hope it never does. Date posted: December 06, 1998. What do you think about this? |