Out to the Movies

A hundred years ago people still went to plays and saw burlesque shows… nowadays we’ve got the movies.  Sure they don’t get the respect that going to the theatre does, but to say one is better than the other is simply the pot calling the kettle black.  TV and Movies brought mass entertainment to everyone, no matter how rich or small.  These days is it even possible to find someone who doesn’t own a tv or a computer?  For me it’s rare to find a movie or a tv show that changes my view on life.  Maybe it’s the fact that I’m getting older and hopefully wiser, but I like to think it’s because of the things I read and things I watch.  Watching the second part of Alice brought me back mentally to a time when things were just simpler.  As a kid I didn’t have much of an imagination and I couldn’t relate with the fact that other kids did.  It was when other kids stopped dreaming that I started to, and since then I’ve never stopped.  The world is more interesting if you don’t accept the black and white regime that society imposes on you, to think there’s something more… it just makes life worth living.  When I watch a great piece of fiction I can almost imagine that I’m there, and that’s why I don’t get reality television.  Well it’s more like I don’t get the people that watch it, it was always my belief that watching TV or reading should be an escape from reality.  I mean who wants to live in reality all day long, and then come home to watch it again on tv.  Seems like that some people are just missing out, or have they just accepted the world as black and white and just don’t dare to dream anymore?