Show Me The Movie
A new movie hits the cinemas and suddenly, you find yourself going through the following scenario:
“Thanks,” you say gratefully as your fingers eagerly wrap around the fresh cup of coffee. The rich aroma reaches up to caress your face with gentle promises of a full awakening to the comforts of the day. Smiling, you turn around to face your friend, who is already on the third sip of coffee and looks as if enlightenment is just around the corner.“And that’s that. I can’t say enough how awesome the movie was!” you exclaim excitedly. With a nod at the other customers standing in line with reined-in impatience, the two of you sidle past them. “Seriously, it’s my new all-time favourite movie now.”“Yeah, it does sound pretty intense. Okay, so let me get this straight. After they send him the message, the main character goes nuts and -”“Well…he doesn’t really go nuts. See, the only way he’d be able to get back at them is to pretend he’s insane,” you jump in with a gleam in your eye.Your friend pauses to consider the new development to the plot. You can tell that the pure awesomeness of the movie that is so obvious to you is not really sinking into your friend’s head. As if on cue, a frown sprouts across your friend’s face.“Alright…umm…so he pretends he’s insane and goes on a rampage to hit everyone so hard that there’s no hope of them ever crawling back up. But what about his girlfriend? They can reach her much faster than he can where he is…so wouldn’t his rampage just trigger them to whack her first? I mean, that way, he would be the one who can’t crawl back up.”“No, no – that’s exactly why he had to play the insanity card,” you say with a finger jab in the air to hammer home the point. “Don’t you see? It’s like…umm…y’know, it’s the way that they – well, you gotta go see it,” you finally finish a bit lamely.Your friend smiles though, clearly familiar with that last line everyone has used at least once during occasional stints as impromptu movie critics.
It’s just not the same if others haven’t seen the movie. I mean, it’s next to impossible to describe the intensity of special effects or scene transitions. Even a simple narration of a movie plot can get so distorted in the other person’s mind that you start questioning whether you’ve finally really lost touch with the language you’re communicating in. Kinda like what happens here:
(Video courtesy of: antisubliminal on Youtube.com)
If you’re a fellow movie buff, then you know exactly what I’m talking about.
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