Okay, I didn’t make a best of list this year!
One thing I’ll remember about the year 2007 is, it’s the year I stopped going to movies. At first this development really bothered me, like, what’s going on with me? Why am I changing, and should I be concerned? But then I thought, no… it’s not a bad thing to change. I only have one life to live, and I should definitely decide how to spend my time in a way that is most positive and productive for me.
My feeling isn’t that I have changed so much… the movies have changed. Or maybe I have just grown out of liking movies. Maybe I HAVE changed, just in I have no more patience for things that ring false with me. I don’t want to experience or witness violence in my daily life, so why should I want to see it in movies. Two movies that I considered seeing, since they were made by some incredibly talented and remarkable filmmakers, the Coen Brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson, promised to be incredibly violent, from what I read about them. I almost went to those movies, but then decided against it. Why do I keep doing that to myself, upsetting myself by the movies I see? So I didn’t go to their movies… and once I didn’t go to their movies it pretty much snowballed… I stopped going to movies altogether!
