Our Connection to Movies

What’s your favorite movie? We all have one. Movies have the ability to reach into our souls and speak to us. I remember being glued to my television at the age of three. My days were filled with ruby slippers, light sabers, and a nun trying to bring a family back together with music. The personal connection that we make with movies is what forms classics. But why do we have these connections? I think that the emotional recognition that we have with the characters and the plot bonds us with certain movies. We all dream of an alternate reality for ourselves to live in, even though we know that we can never live in them. Movies give us opportunity to escape from our realities for two hours and live in somebody else’s.