To Understand...

"A trully good movie is interesting and easy to understand" 
-Akira Kurosawa

We go to the movies to watch others or ourselves? We go into this dark room full of unknown people to begin a journey. Inside our own experiences. Color or colorless, horror, musical, adventure or drama. Every film is told differently. Because the people behind them have different sensibilities.

"Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams."

-Luis Buñuel

There is no two people who think the same or react the same. In our every day life we try to understand why are we here? what we were meant to do? who are we gonna meet? and why?  Film brings  many more questions to our minds. It is true, we morph into people that understand perfectly the movie language but its not the same message for all of us. Some movies are liked others are hated. Maybe because they remind us of better times or we are faced with our own demons.

”There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.”

-Krzysztof Kieślowski

How our parents teach us to be polite and how to defend ourselves. How our teachers challenge us with questions and frequent evaluations. How life makes our mistakes the scars of what we have learned. In films the message is one thing and our interpretation is another. The movie is dated the message is timeless. I really think Every film deserves a second chance. To watch it again might change our opinion.

“The value of art is [its ability] to heal.”

 -Alejandro Jodorowsky

It is very interesting to see how different... several directors feel about the process of movie making, but how alike they all want to portay dreams.

I hope we NEVER loose that desire of going to the movies. Yes many people complaint about :  the long lines or  the ticket price. But it is also a way of stepping outside our daily routine. It´s made to be an all senses experience. That is why your view is directed forward. That is why the lights are out. That is why you should be quiet and turn off your phones during the movie. AND NEVER WATCH A MOVIE ON A PHONE.

"There are two kinds of directors; those who have the public in mind when they conceive and make their films and those who don’t consider the public at all. For the former, cinema is an art of spectacle; for the latter, it is an individual adventure. There is nothing intrinsically better about one or the other; it’s simply a matter of different approaches."  

-François Truffaut

Every day we see the younger generations loose the amazement that we once had. I recall the first time i went to the United States . I saw the PAC-MAN Arcade on the hotel lobby. I was amazed. I couldn´t believe. I could control the TV!!! As dumb as it may seem now, but  back in 1983 it was something TO ME out of this world.

"I once had a dream, or a vision, and I imagined that dream to be of importance to other people, so I wrote the manuscript and made the film. But it is not until the moment when my dream meets with your emotions and your minds that my shadows come to life. It is your recognition that brings them to life. It is your indifference that kills them. I hope that you will understand; that you when you leave the cinema will take with you an experience or a sudden thought—or maybe a question. The efforts of my friends and myself have then not been in vain…" 

— Ingmar Bergman

I will try to teach my children to go to the movies. To be polite and aware that watching a film is like watching a play in the theatre. To stay quiet, until the movie has ended. You are inside a temple. But most importantly  teach them to watch any kind of movie. 

And at the end of the day to be 
those few 
WHO go to the movies
To UNDERSTAND.

"i look at the filmmakers of the past and many filmmakers of the present, i have nothing but admiration, more than admiration , i survive from them, i live of the inspiration i get from many filmmakers.  I believe, particularily  artists  ...have to know the past in order to accept, reject, complaint about, hate, love whatever... i mean how come you not."

-Martin Scorcese