I chose this as one of my inspiration posts because I though I needed a picture that kind of summed up how I actually felt about movies. The quote by the famous director Martin Scorsese shows and proves how movies are much more than movies. Much of the time movies mold peoples childhoods, change how we think about the world, and actually change our terminology when it comes to talking in day to day life. You know you always end up quoting movies with your friends that make you life, you know the end of an emotional movie sometimes touches a nerve. When it comes to shaping childhood, don't even get me started when it comes to Lion King, that movie still carries over into my day to day life in some ways.
This is why I actually wanted to do movie reviews for my blog posts. I didn't just want to review some of the films and give you what I thought about it based on how well the storyline was constructed, or how well the cinematography was in the film. Yes, films do need these systematic elements to be a good and complete film for the viewer. But the emotion of the story, or the one liners in a comedy, are what we really take away from the film. You always hear people talking about how that one moment in a scene made you feel, you don't talk about how upset you were by the lighting of a certain scene when you sit around with your friends. Your left with the emotion of the film.
So, with my reviews I tried to actually describe how the movie might make you feel in some regards. I wanted to kind of flesh out the moral side of the story, and what the underlying causes are of the film so you can have an opportunity to dig deeper into it. Some movies change the way you think, change your philosophy of life and they all serve as memories. There are all much more than "just a movie," there are something that can change your outlook on life and most certainly have a direct influence.
I think you hit the nail on the head with movies. I know personally, I have a few movies that are much more to me than a good story, and I have watched them multiple times because of what they mean. Some movies open your eyes and really make you think, those are the best kinds of movies to me.
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