Movies are an escape to a world so real that you don´t even think twice before entering it. For just a few hours you will get to know different people, experience different surroundings but most of all live in a completely different reality. Movies have the ability to move people, when you enter this new world you have no control. When arriving you deliver your emotions, perceptions as well as your links of the present for that short amount of time. More than watching the plot you are associating to your own life subconsciously.
You never leave a movie the same way you entered it
During a movie the story will touch your insecurities, dive into your memories reaching to play with your emotions. Every scene will be personal to you even if you don´t understand why or can even notice it. Some scenes have the power to recreate memories, that nervous feeling before a first kiss, that fight with your parents when you were becoming independent or even when you attempted to skip school but failed. Every vulnerable link a scene touches makes you shiver inside. Below I will list how each genre will move you in some core ways.
1. Romance
Depending on your relationship status in real life you may experience the movie in different ways. If you are dating someone you will compare the movie to your own relationship. The way the couple presses their fingers gently on each other’s face, the way they lock their eyes but most of all the way they treat each other will make you think about your relationship. If you are having problems you will feel lost. If your relationship isn´t healthy you will wish it was, wanting everything to be different even if you don´t change it. However if the relationship is healthy you will just feel the love as if the movie is feeding the feeling. The moment you stop watching the movie you will have an urge to talk to your partner or be with them. If you are single the your lonely part will feel empty, as if love happens to everyone but you. It is quite hard to watch this type of movies when you don´t have things figured out.
2. Horror, thrillers and crime movies
These types of movies will scare you to rethink your life. During these movies you will become afraid, high on adrenaline and excitement. This type of movie will make you see how life is so fragile. Think about how death can happen at any moment making the question of “have I really lived?” penetrate your head. When you go home you will have this feeling that something in your life has to change because you don´t appreciate everything. Obviously this feeling will grow until you actually can understand it.
3. Animation
While watching these movies you will have two thoughts: rushing memories from when you were young leading to questioning yourself if you are old. Firstly it will make you joyful to remember all those memories, friends, making cookies, watching movies, pretending to marry Aladdin or imitate animated movies. However the most common reaction is people asking themselves if they are old, while thinking about all these memories the association that comes after is that it was a long time ago. Then comes the time obsession.
4. Comedy
Comedy´s mimic a humorous reality leading to the thought that your life is too serious. Rethinking the tone from your job, family, relationships or if you have a sense of humor. There is a certain impact when you realize you don´t live lightly.
5. Documentary
Documentaries make you ask yourself if you have made a mark in your life. By seeing people that have changed the world in a certain way, people have the tendency to review their own lives in search of a mark. All of us want to leave something in this world when we are gone therefore documentaries are hard to watch when you feel you have nothing to give.
6. Fantasy
When watching fantasy movies you detect a problem, person, something wrong in your life and imagine what life would be with powers. People tend to wish for an easier life due to powers.
7. Drama
This tends not to touch your life however your perception of the world. You start asking questions about how the world functions such as questioning what is life, should we really do that or about human behavior. Sometimes you can identify with emotional struggles that the characters are working on, some deep personal struggles are easy to identify especially if they are dark. Although we may identify with these troubles most of the time only our subconscious deals with them, leaving us not realizing why are we feeling down or how to understand the dreams that are haunting us.
