THB #270: A Weekend of Movies

I went to that place for magic. 

To laugh, to cry, to care. Because after 10 days in COVID lockdown, I needed that. 

That indescribable feeling I have get when the lights begin to dim and I know that I am about to experience the work of hundreds of artists, all working to express themselves to me, to us, with a clarity of experience, for a room full of strangers, together for that ride... for the best and the worst and everything in between.

(Apologies to Nicole Kidman and Billy Ray.)

You don’t have to want that experience the same way I do.

You are not a heathen if you just want to sit on your couch and pipe all the content you can consume and 1000s of times more at the whim of your remote control.

But if you have any empathy, you can feel that there is a very real difference between sitting in a movie theater, with strangers around you, with the lights down and the sound up in a way that your neighbors cannot hear, giving yourself over to the work.

The experience of filmed content is a…