Movies are such a passive experience. You sit down and you have no say in what unfolds, no chance to argue whatever the movie has to say--you sit and you watch. Your only power in to turn off the TV/leave the movie theater but hey, you payed good money for that ticket! Naturally, we put ourselves in the roles of the characters in a movie, we get to be Rocky, the terminator, Don Corleone for two or more hours of that day. Movies are fantasies and never full replications of the truth, but they allow us to escape into our fantasies in the least intensive way possible--sitting down! Basically, I saw the Justin Bieber movie and realized the power of movies, especially documentaries. I watched a great director portray the kid in the most talented, heroic way possible and I could not do anything about it but sit and watch--it is not easy to contest something you both see and hear! Well regardless of your views of J. Biebs, movies make one hell of an aesthetic argument!
Here's my favorite Bieber song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHVhwcOg6y8
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