film, a love story.

One of the most precious gifts that film has given us is the ability to escape our lives and experience the world in someone else’s shoes. As the house lights darken our psyches leave our moral bodies and transcend into the bodies that inhabit the silver screen. We are drawn to the screen. We crave the sensations that await our viewing pleasure.
In this new age shrine we pay homage to the great film stars and pray that they will enlighten us and help us transcend our mundane lives and bless us with an exceptional experience. It is then that we receive visions of heroic men, and attractive women overcoming unthinkable obstacles ultimately achieving their “Happily Ever After”. When these silver gods are blessed with good fortune, we receive warm fuzzy feel good sensations knowing that love can conquer all. Similarly, when our silver friend that we have gotten to know over the year in a matter of minutes are cursed with misfortune some morn in the audience and some receive feeling of joy in knowing that they are not the only one’s who have streaks of bad luck.
Some people are devote and committed in their viewing relationship with “their shows”. They develop a long term relationship and become invested in the lives of their favorite characters. Some people may go as far as to say that they know their weekly and rerun friends better than they know the people around them. People turn to the familiar screen when they feel alone and just want to see a familiar face.
Our relationship to film is a deep and romantic affair. Film takes us the glamorous parties that we will never go to. It introduces us to witty and fascinating people who will never know our name, much less our deep thought or emotions. But film will always be there for us to turn to when times get tough. Film will always have room in it’s heart to take us in and show us a world that we could otherwise only dream about.