![]() ![]() Good directors use those moments to ease us into the proper frame of mind while we’re still suspended between between light and dark, between reality and dream state. A movie’s opening shots can clutch us tight by the hand or hold us by the throat when done right. We might start a series to take a closer look at how credit sequences are put together. ![]() We’re pulled inside another dream, one of a thousand dreams we’ve all seen and shared onscreen. The film we’re there to see finally comes alive. The lights dim down and we’re led into trailer territory, the last distractions to bug us. If we’re lucky we’ll be running late, cutting it close, so maybe we’ve missed most of the commercial noise that litters the last few minutes of mental prep before a movie begins. Yann MartelĮnter the theater, descend a ramp, climb the steps to find a good seat. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. Music moves me – duh – and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut.
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