WHY DO WE LOVE WATCHING MOVIES WITH STORIES?

Change the emotions by watching movies or series  

To understand likeness or love, we have to dig into reality of everyday life.

Everyday life includes phases of sleep, chores, job , people, food, clothes etc… . Routine can be monotonous even if you include sometime partying or going outside for fun with friends. But it would cover few hours or a day .One can take a vacation but not for long . It may cover few weeks or months.

Difference between reading & watching

Of course, one can read the stories too. And give the imagination a chance. But if the same story played by someone in a theatre or on movies and series ,you can see the others’ imaginations played or performed differently. One can compare , see others’ perspective towards the same story.

For examples Cinderella’s story has been written once but portrayed differently. Same story played or narrated by different people or animes, different locations, different eras, different languages..

STORIES CHANGE THE MENTAL WORLD

• Escape

Even though everyone has stories of some kind, one can get bored in the own story for sure. As humans we love the emotions. Not just ours but others too. And like to see the others' reflection to the emotions. So we can get connect to others. Some can say it’s a drama or adventure. But we love to see the same or different types of stories played on with others. It can be subjective or not. Sometimes we like the stories which are impossible to the reality because it gives us an imagination. So we think the outside world of ours to get the mind off to the daily routine.

• Correlate/compare 

Our likeness to the stories played on movies are so much more , sometimes we see ourselves in them or related to them. Many people cry with the characters or laugh with them. Sometimes you see yourself in the movie playing a part because of the likeness to the story, movie, character or even an actor, actress or just the music. Movies and series change our mood . They give us not just an escape but also give us the connection to the different mental world or phase.

• Affixation to storyline

Stories can be sometimes adventurous, thriller, romantic, historic, comedy, drama etc. But movies and series turn the story into the flash of images & make them in sequence to get us attached to the same story. For example two men are fighting on railway track and in the next shot you see the train is coming towards them.

Or love and conspiracy is played on the boat and boat is about to crash into the huge iceberg.

Biopics or true story which are based on one’s life turn into exciting because of the sequence of events played differently. For an example in the beginning of Social Network movie protagonist went on a date and then humiliated his date. Then went on to build a social network platform and humiliated her on that too. At the end he was trying to be a better person by showing that he was sending friend request to the same girl. https://gfycat.com/easygoingboldhoneyeater

It might not happen in real life but chain of events that shown in the movie , that gave out a story in which one can see the character development.

• Motivation

Movies and series change one’s life too. Those can be an inspirational or lead to the path of destruction or just tiny changes in one’s life. Sometimes change one’s perspective to see the things differently or give a hope. Or just an escape for few minutes.

Even while writing this ,I can relate to Jane Austen😉. Kidding I don’t like writing romance . I like writing period.