The beauty of movies
and how can we find ourselves in them.
For the past century movies have played a significant role within our lives. Whether youâre looking for some easy entertainment to pass the time, see the next âbiggest film of the yearâ or taking your partner on a date. People often imply that a movies whole purpose is to just entertain, but is that entirely true? Movies allow us to explore our minds -- to experience and feel things we wouldnât normally feel within the real world, to escape reality. Itâs not every day youâre going to be caught up in a car chase down a military runway (Fast & Furious 6), getting hunted in the woods by a psychopath wielding a machete (Friday 13th), or be enlightened by romance (When Harry met Sally). But cinema is not always escapism: One can hardly accept the fact that cinema can be so remote from escapism. Cinema is real. Cinema is a reality. An art form can only survive if it grazes the reality, the real life of people and society.
Cinema is our lifeâs reflection: Cinema breathes life into lonely and desolated people. It picks them up. It can arouse feelings in dead people who are real in disguise. It sometimes awakens the âinner youâ, thus making people confident of themselves by self-inspection, exploration, and realization. With human emotions, cinema can be sensitive, touching, daunting, haunting, arousing, and horrifying with the imagery. It can evoke fear, anger, joy, sadness, envy, shame and sometimes disgust! But in the truest way. Itâs all as true as our very existence. Cinema can make people realize life because it coheres with our conscience. Human emotions are too complex to be understood in other ways except experiencing them oneself. It has the power to touch the deep dark corner of oneâs, sometimes in ways, they didnât imagine. It has the ability to shake and check oneâs resistance to the core.
Must see
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Black Swan
(2010)
Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.
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Aftersun
(2022)
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(2019)
Young painter Marianne, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of HĂŠloĂŻse without her knowing. Marianne must observe her model by day to paint her portrait at night. The two women become closer as they share HĂŠloĂŻse's last moments of freedom before the impending wedding.
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Lost in Translation
(2003)
A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
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Little Miss Sunshine
(2006)
A family decide to travel across the country when their daughter wants to participate in a beauty pageant, unaware of what the journey has in store for them.
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Mission: Impossible â Dead Reckoning Part I
July 13th
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Barbie
July 21st
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Oppenheimer
July 21st
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