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Film Geeks
Our Lives As Told by The Seventh Art
In other words, cinema is a preeminent mode for the generation of participation in the myths of our times. The emotional intensity of the ritual, of contact with mythology, is what draws belief, salience, and importance into the encounter. In movies, the scale of human action takes on mythic proportions. Not only in size but also in terms of the importance of gesture, storyline, character, emotions, settings, and scenes. Archetypal characters bring to life finely-wrought scripts wherein storylines illustrate moral reflections, aspirational narratives, and the dramatization of historical events. The finely selected dialogue in movies is so crucial that it resembles the manifest content of dialogue in dreams.
Films' Role in Our Lives-
Rom-Coms❣️
Romantic comedies feature regular people in regular circumstances. They appeal to the idea of everyday life without having to stretch for engaging, realistic stories to tell. The interwoven tales of living in the mundane are touched by the power of Hollywood magic, where meet-cutes find themselves transforming into public declarations of love for all to know. The absenteeism of subtlety adds that trademark in movie making, leaving the most unnoticed details to be caught by a well-trained eye. The commonplace approach to romantic comedies grounds it in reality. The dramatics of Hollywood elevate the simplest of situations into a protagonist finding their lifelong partner. Romantic comedies find themselves in relatable settings surrounded by relatable.
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Horrors😨
It is a combination of an adrenaline rush and an opportunity to learn about dealing with scary situations in a safe environment, researchers say. Clasen and his colleagues identified three broad types of horror fans: “adrenaline junkies,” “white knucklers” and “dark copers.” [...] When we are afraid, our endocrine system releases adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol to help prepare our body for physical action. We know the “Halloween” [...] Michael Myers is not real, but our brain still responds as if he were a knife-wielding threat. One brain imaging study found that watching horror movies activates threat-response brain regions such as the amygdala, prefrontal cortex and insula as if the danger were real.
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Period Dramas🏰
"These [period] stories are like a flight simulator for life," she says, "they show us ways of being through universal themes of love, betrayal, redemption, innocence, justice, sacrifice, transformation." "The characters are often archetypal: the hero, the partner, the villain, the guide. And a good story allows the viewer to be transported into the narrative and experience the story from "within" through character identification that enables emotional engagement," added Dr. Rutledge, which she says creates a sense of presence of "being there" so the viewer feels like a participant emotionally rather than an observer.
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