It was Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, who said that art had a very important role in life, which is to bring pleasure through the catharsis of emotion. And what is catharsis? It is simply the healing of the soul by feeling emotions created by art!
That’s why we love movies! We love to sit through a movie and feel the emotions that movies create in us. But wait, movies have props, they have scripts, and they have actors and actresses, and they are not us! If we need real catharsis, if we want to feel as if we were truly the main characters of a film, we need to put ourselves into their roles.
We need to go to Hollywood and knock on the door of a movie director and beg to be given a role in his next movie. We need to talk to our favourite author. We need to … wait, that sounds too difficult! Why don’t we just visit the newest attraction in town…