Books Versus Movies
Lately I’ve read quite a lot of books:
- The Dark Tower series by Stephen King (7 books in all)
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Whilst reading, I noticed I wanted nothing but to read, almost obsessively. It was my way of checking out of life, and checking into an alternate reality. I used to do this with movies: rent a bunch of them, and watch one every night, turning off my phone and disconnecting from everyone to decompress. After reading my last book, I decided to rent a movie (I had an unused coupon about to expire). So, I watched it by myself, and noticed the same thing happen. A sensation of comfort snuck up on me.
Is my life really so bad that I need to decompress with a book or a movie? Perhaps others’ lives are harder. I don’t know. Sometimes I feel like I am overwhelmed and overstimulated with my own life and concerns that it is nice to bliss out on a story having nothing to do with me. The trick for me is to not get too caught up in it.
So…did you like the movie?
It was alright. Definitely better than its sequel, although I now want to see that to give the first one a sense of completion.