Denial of the effect

Posted on July 1, 2009. Filed under: Random |

Yesterday I watched New York with family & friends. The movie was really touching & made everyone feel for those who were detained & tortured as suspects of terrorist-links after the 9/11 incident. The director did a great job in keeping the audience engrossed. He took them into the lives of such people & made them feel what they would do if they were in such a situation. Yet after the movie was over, everyone said the movie was OK. They refused to comment on it. Why?

We all watch Bollywood movies for fun & entertainment. And at the same time we try and resist their effect on us.

Most of us have become so heartless and so in our own worlds that we don’t want to feel what the director is trying to show. We think its “uncool” to say a movie is great. The maximum that we would say is that the movie was “OK”. Why can’t we freely express what we feel & why do we have to behave like robots?

Who are we trying to fool? Can we really be emotionless from deep within? Can we really be unaffected by any audio-visual we’ve seen? Since we were in Junior Kindergarten we have been taught in the way of photographic memory. No one teaches such a kid that an apple is a red coloured fruit that is sweet to taste…one shows it to them. “A” says “Apple” & the picture is right there. We will remember these things taught to us when we could barely understand what the world is like, till we die. If such basic audio-visuals can have such a deep impact on us then how can advanced technology like movies that make the experience as real as it can get, not affect us?