We like to watch a good movie. There are some movies you like, others you love and then there are a few that touch a cord with your heart. It could be
a drama, horror, romance or comedy. We love to watch people pretend on the
screen with emotions that should appear true. Some of my favourite movies are
Treasure Island, In the Loop, The Chaser, The Godfather, I Saw the Devil and
The Shawshank Redemption.
As you can see my choices range from classics to murder
mysteries. One of the movies is about a guy looking for treasure unintentionally accompanied by
pirates and finally a fight ensues - everything else you already know. Another
is about how world was forced into a war to fulfil geopolitical advantages for a group of nations; a
political satire. The Chaser - is about a guy who is chasing a serial murderer,
the "chaser" is a former cop turned pimp - yet I liked him. There is
no particular genre that I can adhere too. So is there anything common in these
movies?
Apart from all these being a work of
fiction. Have you ever asked why you do like movies you like? You can come up
with answers like - good acting, favourite actor, excellent storyline, good
graphics etc. But really, why did you like the movie? When I asked the same
question repeatedly to myself (somewhat like the 5 Whys Approach) the answer was pretty simple I liked the idea about a person dedicated
to a cause - whether that was his or her own survival, or survival of his
family, or freedom or plain old greed! Yes that seems to work too.
We like the idea of dedication and determination. It seems
to bring out a raw emotion in our human consciousness. Dedication towards a cause
or desire inspires us and fills us with this invisible energy that seems to
tell us that "yes you can do it too". That's what I seem to like
about movies and that could be the skeleton of any story if we remove the flesh
that can describe everything else. The bared bones of any movies are a
protagonist or an antagonist dedicated to a cause/desire/aim/goal/wish/hope or
any other word that can define a destination explicitly. So we love this
idea which has the ability to transform us from a simple human being to a
human being with a goal.
I'll let you apply this on movies you
like. It's like when one actor said acting is like taking a razor and peeling yourself underneath your skin. It's the rawness (like the barbaric Yawp Robin Williams so beautifully said in Dead Poet's Society) that finally inspires heart and mind to greatness. So remove everything and ask yourself what you liked about the movie - if the answer
ain't close to your heart it ain't the right answer!
Dedicated to Robin Williams - an actor who aspired to lay himself bare in front of us and asked the same openness in return. #RobinWilliams
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