Getting out of the boat

             The last time you were in a plane, did you get any turbulence? Probably a little. If you're reading this, it means it thankfully didn't get too bad. Imagine it did. Imagine it got horrible . Imagine the plane crew was panicking, one of them was unconscious, and the 60-year-old smoker next to you vomited all over your pants. You look outside, and everything is black. Occasionally a lightning strike illuminates the terrifying maelstrom outside the plane, with it's 30,000 feet drops and mountain sized cumulonimbus clouds.     Then, imagine, with one flash of lightning, you see a human silhouette far in the distance. You'd probably think someone just fell out of the plane. But then, another bolt flashes, and you see this person again and they're getting closer. And closer, and closer to the wing. And they're flying.      Even as I wrote that example, I still don't think I can replicate the terr...

What can we get from our favorite art? Movies are cool. You can use them to escape, relax, and challenge yourself. Well crafted films are often cool, inspiring, impressive, and, you might hate the word, “vibey”.  Movies can serve a lot of functions. Some movies exist only to entertain at a very basic level(Ex. Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (2024)). Some movies exist to be purely artistic expressions of the director with little entertainment value(ex. Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky(1979)). Some films seek to entertain by creating an intensely escapist world or by having a hyper stylized composition(See Star Wars or a ny Quentin Tarantino film ).  Many movies, the movies that are typically most peoples’ favorites, blend entertainment and directorial vision and some amount of thematic meaning all together. Generally this leads to our most widespread and beloved films - See The Return of The King (2003) , The Dark Knight (2008) , or Jurassic Park (1993). Some of my very favorit...