Art helps you -escape- *survive in* reality
There is something about films. They can be entertaining, or boring. They can be mainstream, or totally unknown. They can be rewarded with golden statues, or rotten tomatoes. They can be remembered through years, or undeservedly forgotten.
In the endless sea of various moving pictures, everyone can find a story, which is more than just a film. A story, which for a some reason feels more important than other films, even those which you anticipated more. Maybe that story can say something you really needed to hear. Maybe that story can answer the questions, which remained unanswered for years. Maybe that story can show you a new perspective. Maybe that story can help you to deal with something. Maybe that story can make you emotional (Pixar used to do this a lot, but not recently). Maybe that story can let you live a different life until the credits roll. Maybe it some other reason, any reason, this is just a bunch of most common.
But as soon as the credits roll, you are forced to go back to reality. And reality can be really different. A second ago you were free to go on any adventures the story has, you were powerful to face any enemies like a superhero, and now you're running from shadows and can't do anything. It's even worse, if the world on the screen was a better place. You don't want to go, but you have to go back to your boring staff, instead of living your best life, because it's just impossible. You can do it only in your head, when you're watching films, or when you're already awake, but don't want to get up because you can just think. Some people are lucky enough to also live their best life in dreams, but it's not something that can be done on purpose for most people.
The darker the times, the more people need films and other forms of stories... This is no more a luxury of escaping the reality, but rather a necessity of surviving IN reality. Of course, you shouldn't get too carried away with this, there should be a balance, or you can't survive either, but films really help.
Okay, that's my philosophy for today. :) So, I decided to build the cinema, though it doesn't have to be a cinema, you can watch films online on streams (like I did), but it's harder to portray, you know, so I thought a cinema would be a better metaphor, as well as the chains of the limitations of reality. This is also the real cinema in my city, I tried really hard to replicate those particular wall panels, which had steps just like the steps on the staircase below the panels, though it had less steps than the staircase, and also I build the more comfy seats on the front row, you can see now, why they look different. Actually, I haven't been to cinema since the pandemic started, not a single time, and even few years before that I haven't watched this film when it was out (and it's great that I didn't - I wouldn't like it back then). Which film? You can think about any film which fits the description above for YOU. :) That's what the art is about, isn't it?
Art helps you -escape- *survive in* reality
There is something about films. They can be entertaining, or boring. They can be mainstream, or totally unknown. They can be rewarded with golden statues, or rotten tomatoes. They can be remembered through years, or undeservedly forgotten.
In the endless sea of various moving pictures, everyone can find a story, which is more than just a film. A story, which for a some reason feels more important than other films, even those which you anticipated more. Maybe that story can say something you really needed to hear. Maybe that story can answer the questions, which remained unanswered for years. Maybe that story can show you a new perspective. Maybe that story can help you to deal with something. Maybe that story can make you emotional (Pixar used to do this a lot, but not recently). Maybe that story can let you live a different life until the credits roll. Maybe it some other reason, any reason, this is just a bunch of most common.
But as soon as the credits roll, you are forced to go back to reality. And reality can be really different. A second ago you were free to go on any adventures the story has, you were powerful to face any enemies like a superhero, and now you're running from shadows and can't do anything. It's even worse, if the world on the screen was a better place. You don't want to go, but you have to go back to your boring staff, instead of living your best life, because it's just impossible. You can do it only in your head, when you're watching films, or when you're already awake, but don't want to get up because you can just think. Some people are lucky enough to also live their best life in dreams, but it's not something that can be done on purpose for most people.
The darker the times, the more people need films and other forms of stories... This is no more a luxury of escaping the reality, but rather a necessity of surviving IN reality. Of course, you shouldn't get too carried away with this, there should be a balance, or you can't survive either, but films really help.
Okay, that's my philosophy for today. :) So, I decided to build the cinema, though it doesn't have to be a cinema, you can watch films online on streams (like I did), but it's harder to portray, you know, so I thought a cinema would be a better metaphor, as well as the chains of the limitations of reality. This is also the real cinema in my city, I tried really hard to replicate those particular wall panels, which had steps just like the steps on the staircase below the panels, though it had less steps than the staircase, and also I build the more comfy seats on the front row, you can see now, why they look different. Actually, I haven't been to cinema since the pandemic started, not a single time, and even few years before that I haven't watched this film when it was out (and it's great that I didn't - I wouldn't like it back then). Which film? You can think about any film which fits the description above for YOU. :) That's what the art is about, isn't it?