Movie
Buff , that’s what they call me
People are different. It’s so glaringly obvious that I
feel that it needs to be stated because of how easy it is to forget it. I
myself forget this regularly and end up setting up expectations, standards and
views of people that aren’t really realistic for those people to achieve. And,
sadly, I think this happens a lot when I try talking with film buffs because
sometimes I just don’t get other film buffs.
A
movie needs to be watched where it is most suitable to be fully
experienced. And a theater provides the kind of immerse, palpable experience
that no other mode can. In my case, the joy I experience when I catch a film in
a theater fills the void of an absent social life.
I don't read
any reviews of a film before walking into it. It influences and mars the
experience in a big way when one watches the film with a preconceived notion of
what works in it and what doesn't. The only way to recognize a bad
film is by unknowingly becoming a part of it. When one finally
identifies with what elements work and do not work in a film, they can tell if
a film will turn out to be emotionally and intellectually productive at first
glance.
The point to all this is that I’ve begun to
understand that while we may all call ourselves movie buffs, a lot of us have
very different motivations for why and how we go about watching movies. It’s
not simply that we love movies and that we watch them. There’s more
nuance to that and I think if we can begin to recognize the differences in
those nuances, we’ll do a much better job of understanding one another. We’re
all movie lovers in some form, but we all have different ways of expressing and
exploring our love of films. It’s less about if you are more or less of a film
buff than I am, it’s more about the essential question: of what kind of film
buff are you?
And yes I am huge movie buff. Regular theater goer
is bound to notice me. Whenever I have free time I head to watch movies.
