My Film Experience

You are approaching the auditorium, and you are shuddering with the excitement of seeing a new film. After the tearing of a freshly printed ticket fills your ears, you find yourself sitting in a soft cushioned chair as you plunge your hand into a bucket of freshly popped corn. After a rather long reel of upcoming attractions the film begins. Film isn’t just a collection of scenes strung together for the consumer’s entertainment. Film is an experience, and more importantly an escape. It is an opportunity for the audience to feel the ever growing span of human emotion and experience.
Film has provided me with an escape from everyday reality that is essential for anyone encountering a stressful situation or life struggle. They allow you to experience the most luxurious and daring adventure, while showing you how people react to life around them. In addition to adventure, film captures raw human emotion and forces the audience to feel. I first encountered this in Air Bud, the first film I ever saw in a theater. When pairing it with the real-life issue I faced in losing a friend, it revealed to me a character that mirrored everything I was facing. Although I didn’t receive a happy ending reunion in my life, the film gave me the experience of achieving just that. Another film that helped me through a difficult time in my life was The Breakfast Club. When faced with insecurities, it revealed to me that all teens face the dilemma of deciding who they are and where they fit in to the grand scheme of life. Cinema captures everything that drives us in our lives and translates it into fantastic storytelling that transcends the boundaries of all generations.
My absolute favorite genres are action adventure, comedy, and horror. Bruce Willis’s Die Hard series was the best combination of heart pounding suspense and action. More recently the Transformers film series and Avatar have caught my favorite nod. I love comedies such as Billy Madison and Brendan Fraser’s Airheads. However, The Hangover is arguably the best movie from the comedy genre of all time. Last but not least, Wes Craven’s Scream series is my all time favorite horror film series. I love the feeling horror movies provide while sitting in a dark room and having chills move up and down your spine. Growing up, no matter how many times I would change the channel or shut the movie off, I would always go back to the movie and finish it. The suspense, chill, and gore always find a way to pull me back in. Although I could choose several films to take the positions of my favorites of all time, cinema evolves as humanity does, and it is for that reason that I am always looking for a new favorite.