anrchy wrote:See the way I look at it, and I may be incorrect, but the actors are merely selling the act. What one does with the recording is completely different. Be it a movie, a commercial, a college project ect.
So when I watch things I don't pick out those kinds of things as I find it to dilute the experience. For the same reason reading a book allows you to create the view of it on your own.
I still don't see the differentiation you have between this acted out scene of supposed strangers kissing, and the same thing in a movie. Both instill in me the same feelings one would possibly feel during such an encounter.
Kind of like how some people will critique a movie based on incorrect facts or incorrect realism, or how people wouldn't act like that. I watch things for fun and experience.
Still kinda of confused as to your view point on the video. Aren't most movies contrived? I think from my standpoint, regardless of it being phony, I allowed myself to create the realness part of it. Due to the fact I have felt that before, and I like experiencing empathy... Whether it be from a real experience or one that is acted out.
Movies, good movies, let you forget, for a moment, that it is a staged act. But it takes time to get invested in a movie......I just can't get into a two minute video clip and suspend disbelief on this subject matter.
I do concede that it is the experience that matters. Like with DMT: does it matter if we don't really travel through dimensions and meet with entities? No. The EXPERIENCE is real to the individual, he takes the memory and incorporates it into his overall worldview.
Some people may be moved to tears by a commercial for eggs. That's fine. I'm not.
This kissing video just did not resonate with me--I don't like watching people kiss, even actors; it feels like an invasion into a very intimate act. I just can't relate to this video at all; some people hated the movie Titanic......some people watched it fifty times.
Fear, belief, love phenomena that determined the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. We cross and recross our old paths like figure skaters; our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
---David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas