Seduce Me

I'll never be able to see something exactly how someone else sees it. I'll never be able to fully comprehend another person's perspective. That's just how it is. I'm me. You're you. We live in different worlds and they may overlap in some ways but they cannot be the same world unless we are the same person. Which we aren't.

Films, however, can establish a temporary perspective that verges on seeing through another person's eyes. This accomplishment by films--even by some that are terrible--gives me a high regard for the medium; I believe filmmaking is the greatest of all arts.
Tonight I saw Coraline, an enchanting film by Henry Selick, the madman responsible for A Nightmare Before Christmas. The film was excellent and the viewing with special 3D glasses made the illusion of altered perspective more successful than most other films.

Good films, like good lovers, are seductive because they draw you in. They make you forget about everything else for a while by temporarily changing your perspective. I suppose, living like I do (in a cave), I often substitute films for the company of women. Everyone wants to be seduced. Everyone wants to forget who he/she is for a while. Unfortunately, a film only lasts a couple hours and I'm quickly thrown back into my reality: Lonely. Uncertain. Drifting.

Oh. And about the first thing I said...Someday some genius will invent that SQUID device from Strange Days and then I'll be wrong since that fucker taps into your cerebral cortex and you can experience another person's reality via ALL of your senses. Since our senses link us to the physical world, you'd literally feel like you were in the shoes of another human being. So what's left to differentiate realities then? Our souls?