Do You Have A Life? ("Motor... Action!")

- Foreword -

People talk about many things: Topics can vary according to their interests, their tastes, their lifestyle and their environment. At times, I can just enter in the conversation and add to it, but at times... I think you know the feeling. When two of your friends talk about Mensa topics, you just doze off and go "What the f*bleep*k!". You know what? In my case, I've never been exposed to Mensa conversations (at least, none of my friends ever went on a long speech about quantum physics and enjoyed it, thank God - that'd have given me a headache). However, even non-Mensa people have their own Mensa-like topics, where they reach expertise. You just stand there (or sit or lie like a larvae) and listen, or just doze off (in other terms, daydream).

The topic I just happen to go larvae mode when I hear people speaking about it seems to be a familiar topic, really. At least, it is to 99,9999% of the people I know.

Movies: Mensa-caliber in 100 years

I thought that it was limited to the people I am acquainted to, who, for some, happen to be movie freaks. However, when you see that most people would have, in their culture, movie quotes... There's something strange. It either means that movies are turning to be the next Mensa topic (see that in a hundred years) on which case everyone would be looking at movie appreciators with a "wtf" expression by then. However, right now, I'm sure I'm not the only "non-movie-Mensa" Homo Sapien, but I'm sure I'm a "movie-retard". Definitely. I'm not dead though.

It would look as though I don't get a life. I've only been twice to the movies, because I paid none of it. As for watching movies, it is not my main life concern right now. It looks like I live in an alternate reality, though, as everyone is found buzzing on the new movie of the moment rather than pondering any other existential issue.

I also notice that when you don't know about movies "everyone is supposed to know about", people look at you like you're lifted. My movie repertoire is so limited that... it's almost nil. I can only recall blurs of any movie I watched (I don't give a damn to titles or people who make them).

An inquiring mind's question of the day

What is so special about movies that make people think it is a must-do to watch movies regularly? What is so vital about it?

If you have a reply in mind, please comment!

P.S: Momentum break

When I see family-friendly TV games that are supposedly all about knowledge asking for movie quotes, I start to wonder about how TV could affect people's perception of reality if they watch it too much. Oh... Let's bring the man named Michael Franti (back in his Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy days) in the place, should be better.


Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television, The Drug of the Nation

Take your time at listening what's said there, it pretty much hovers on my opinion on TV.
"Does it imitate us? Or do we imitate it?" It's a known fact that it's the latter, M. Franti.