Movie Mode

Movies: they shape our lives in so many ways. Movies provide us with values, stories, a sense for history, entertainment, education, fantasies, and a means of escaping your job as the guy who picks up the shit after a horse on parades. Whatever it may be, movies serve us all in different ways.

For me movies have always been a way to see the world differently. In Movie Land (for lack of a better name) the only perspectives you see are the important ones: the ones that move the story forward. You could be in the head of the hero, the villain, and the audience all at the same time. Cuts, special effects, and editing make this possible. In Real Land that's not possible. The only visual perspective you have is your own. We see what our eyes see. Nothing more. But if you're creative, delusional or have the tendency to let your mind wander then you might have multiple perspectives going on at one time. I call this "Movie Mode."

So here I am, typing away on my computer, seeing the words that are being typed in front of me. The second I go into Movie Mode I can see a montage sequence developing. A series of fast cuts and motion blurs start to occur that make the cumbersome process of writing a blog pass by at a fraction of the time. In my mind I can see myself from a third-person perspective, body hunched over on my desk, baring the soft glare from the computer screen. Now comes the music. Some fast techno/new age melody will do. This ties well with my fast montage scene of typing a blog really fast. The words are just coming to me. What really takes 15 minutes is being cut down into 15 seconds!

And before I know it I'm sitting at my desk, satisfied – relieved. The blog is finished. And then there's a cut scene to me clicking on the "Publish Post" button and the blog goes online.

Fade back to Real Land.

~Anthans