Do you ever get the feeling that you’re stuck in a box? Dragging through the same routine day after day, week after week, year after year? Eating the same foods, watching the same movies, listening to the same music, until you’re ready to rip your hair out and bang your head against the walls just to get some variety in life?
That is rather dramatically put, but there is at least a kernel of truth there.
Everyone reaches a point in their life when they find themselves swimming with the tide altogether too often. This is what they DO. Change is uncomfortable.
You know what I’m talking about. When you wake up in the morning already knowing what your day’s going to look like when it begins. When you don’t even bother writing a grocery list anymore, because you already know what you’re going to bring home.
Here’s the thing.
If you are like most people trying to break out of your routine, you look ahead. You look ahead to the latest version of the iPad or iPhone. You think about the new clothes that are out now; the newest electronic gizmos, the latest electric cars. All the trends of tomorrow’s living, today right now.
We spend so much time looking forward that we forget that there is also real value in looking back.
When was the Last Time you Spent a Few Hours Enrapt over an Old Film Classic?
Have you seen “Casablanca” lately or “12 Angry Men?” If not, or if you have never seen these two classics, you are in for a real treat.
There are many who swear that the movies of yore had more value before the advent of those exciting and extraordinary special effects took over the silver screen, overriding the necessity for plot and character development. In the movie “12 Angry Men,” for example, the spellbinding plot took the audience’s focus away from the fact that it was all filmed in one location and the actors in it resembled real people. Strong camera work kept the viewer interested in the characters and storyline despite what was rather low film quality compared to today’s.
Modern films rely greatly on special effects and complex technology to hold the viewer’s attention. That detracts the focus from the real meat of the movie, the characters, the story and the overall ambience of the film – everything that led you to sit down and view the movie in the first place.
If you are not a film freak, perhaps the idea of caring whether it’s the latest bells and whistles in filming technique or a satisfying vintage movie may seem a little strange. As long as it’s interesting, who cares?
Websites are making these vintage gems available to us again, giving everyone an opportunity to become a classic film devotee. We can now appreciate the modern technology that gives us joy viewing the latest movies while savoring the unique elements of the vintage classics that make them so timelessly entertaining. One has to marvel at how these films of such artistry were made with such crude tools.
And, we can know what it was that attracted us to films in the first place.
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