| Storytelling. | | | | has recognized an event that completely goes |
| Our earliest ancestors painted on walls, ancient | | | | against what it can relate to. |
| Greeks acted it out on stages, and present-day | | | | Life is absolute chaos. It's a mess of successes, |
| actors and actresses are paid obscene amounts to | | | | disappointments, emotions, confusion and events that |
| do it in front of cameras. From as early as we have | | | | bleed together in a seemingly endless and shapeless |
| records, we have people telling tales of myth, legend | | | | splatterboard that requires us to organize in our |
| & adventure. Some true, some completely | | | | heads, always searching for "true meanings" and |
| fabricated & some in between- The fact still | | | | "lessons learned", whereas movies organize the chaos |
| remains, we have a need inside of us to hear stories | | | | for us. They provide a similar version of what we |
| and events of completed trials and tribulations of our | | | | experience in a neat little package with a beginning, |
| fellow people. | | | | middle and end that we can understand, follow and |
| It's all about relation, and if a movie has your interest, | | | | sort out. In real life, the camera does not stop rolling |
| it's because you relate to it in some way. It may | | | | when the guy finally gets the girl and marries her... He |
| connect with something that happened in your past | | | | cheats on her 6 years later and leaves her a single |
| or something you wish to happen in your future. | | | | parent with 3 children and an overwhelming mortgage |
| Maybe it's your biggest fear and you want to see | | | | payment, fighting for child support in court. |
| how the person in the story handles it, or maybe it's | | | | In movies we don't have to deal with this. It's |
| just something you never even thought of and | | | | action-reaction-result and then it ends. We can even |
| you're wondering what you would do if you were | | | | go back and relive it exactly like it happened as many |
| placed in that situation. | | | | times as we want. Try doing that with your ex. |
| While certain qualities of how well a movie is | | | | This organized chaos also has another advantage |
| structured or written can't be denied, whether a | | | | over real life (Assuming of course it's a well-made |
| movie is "good" or "bad" is an entirely subjective | | | | movie): There's not much down time. The important |
| opinion and is based off of how you are relating to | | | | times that progress the story are all we see. We can |
| it's events in your subconscious. Women tend to like | | | | see every important event in a family over 30 years |
| love stories more because female brains are | | | | in 2 hours. We get to see the dork be a dork for the |
| hardwired with an overwhelming desire to be loved, | | | | first 30 minutes and then the cool guy with his dream |
| accepted and desired while guys tend to gravitate | | | | girl for the next 90, and then it's over. We don't |
| toward stories that satisfy their primal instinct to | | | | have to sit through 4 years of his transformation |
| conquer, dominate and control. These, of course, are | | | | period to see what results from it. |
| complete opposite ends of a spectrum that most of | | | | Movies capture our imagination for different reasons, |
| us are somewhere in between. | | | | but we all want to see someone win or lose. And the |
| Movies are reflections of life, and as you are | | | | reasons why are always more personal than we |
| watching them your mind is constantly figuring out if | | | | realize. Whether you root for the good guy or the |
| it relates the order of what's happening on screen to | | | | bad guy, you're hoping for an outcome, and it's going |
| what it's experienced in the past. How many times | | | | to be delivered to you in a neat presentation. |
| have you been watching a movie and suddenly | | | | So just sit back and enjoy the story. Or if you're like |
| shouted out "That could NEVER happen!"? Your brain | | | | me, go out and create it. |