The Problem With Movies

The problem with movies. I’ve watched so many movies they show a life not quite real the insidious trap is that so many show how things should actually be. On celluloid is shown so many things that lift an audiences hopes, connections can be made that reconnections are possible, That redemption and heroism are real! The movies are so convincing, suspend disbelief, allow hopes to lift live shared moments of happiness, promise adventure cathartic release, justice always gives satisfaction, visions of love and battling evil happiness and success. Real life is not like that more complicated, less simple much much longer, and not in any way the ideal. People are not enemies or friends, there is no clear love and hate, shades and shades of drifting grey now darker now lighter never constant. Movie over and faced with life, should we feel betrayed, By whom? Directors producers for presenting ideals ourselves for temporary hopes and belief? The betrayal is that we’re shown what should be but cannot make it real. ©T.Arnold