2017年1月28日土曜日

I cannot see movies anymore

Movies used to take me to another world. My favorite stars include Tom Cruise, Michael Douglas, Gregory Peck (my mother’s “eternal lover”), Michael J. Fox and Jodie Foster.

I enjoyed some drama series, too. Sex and the City was the all-time favorite TV drama. Whether its overall organization and storytelling, choice of topics or skills of each actresses and actors, it has been surpassed by none. Interestingly, the movie versions are not that good, and I don't think they should have been made because the drama itself was excellent enough.

Since a few years ago, somehow I found movies too boring to watch until the end. Perhaps because my life has become more interesting than movies. I find myself travel to a different overseas destination virtually every month, discovering places I have never been to before. I experience real life situations that are far more interesting than TV dramas and movies. It is also true many Hollywood movies follow the same boring pattern.

In the Internet or social media age where one can publish your own stories, searching YouTube has also proved to be more intriguing than seeing artificial scenes from movies. Today everyone is a producer, writer and narrator of his or her life events. That might be the biggest reason why movies are no longer interesting to me.