The Places Movies Take Me

I just finished watching The Other Boleyn Girl about an hour ago, and loved it. However, i cannot claim to be the most critical critic of cinema because i can usually find something good about almost every movie i have seen. On only a few rare occasions have i walked out of a movie theatre or turned off my television feeling like i wasted two hours of my life, with the exception of Meet the Spartans which was TERRIBLE!. The basic fact is, i love movies. Whether they are old or new, black and white or colored, historical or slapstickk funny. Movies have the amazing capability to take us as viewers anywhere we want to go, if we let our imaginations go there.

While walking out of the theatre of The Other Boleyn Girl it was like stepping out of a world so different from our own, into the harsh and bitterly cold rain of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was as if when i took those few steps from the theatre to my car, i not only crossed the street, but crossed into the dull, and sometimes frustrating reality of my life. This is why movies are so entertaining for me, and maybe some others. In a movie theatre, we are allowed, with exceptional movies, to witness the excitement that we feel life should be giving us. We watch the body language and listen to the dialogue as if it were a study of some sort. For me, i like to imagine what i would do if i was one of the characters. In The Other Boleyn Girl, i get to imagine what i would do to win the affections of a king. This can be done with books and television too, but there is something more powerful about a movie. In the darkened theatre, our senses become overwhelmed by the sites and the sounds of the story playing out in front of uson the huge screen.

In every movie from The Other Boelyn Girl to Talladega Nights to Finding Nemo there is special feeling one can get from the movies. When i itruly love a movie, i feel like i could watch it over and over again and never tire of it, and sometimes that is true. But whether or not a movie is my favorite or not, i can (almost) always find something to love about the cinematic experience and the places it can take me.