Monday, June 2, 2008

Film Pill

Have you ever seen a movie and thought to yourself, "The protagonist in this story reminds me of a friend, if only they could see this film, they went through the same mistake".

For example imagine the viewer wears goggles and the film playing is them crossing the street and not noticing anything, and then bam a car hits from the side, and the camera tumbles. This would remind people to instinctively look right and left before crossing. Or, a film about a battered woman, where some part of the story, is exactly what occurred with a woman friend, you have an inclination to show her the movie so she can see a perspective of herself.

This idea is to constructively embrace the mediums of psychological therapy and theater, to make a concrete articulated point (like Bertolt Brecht with politics).

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