Sunday, July 22, 2012  TSS: It was like a movie  The Sunday
Super-rambly and pointless post this Sunday: I've been thinking
about reality versus art a lot this past week. What, really, is
reality? This is something I wonder about a lot. How permeable
is the line between ideas and actualization, and how do movies
and books influence how we interact with the world, not just as
individuals but as a society?  Last month we had devastating
wildfires, and I remember the newscasters saying, "It's like
watching a movie." Did they make this statement to separate
themselves from what was really happening, because they couldn't
believe what was in front of their eyes, or because of the
voyeuristic experience of watching something happen on a screen?
I think it was probably a combination of all three.  Just for
the record, I am 100% in support of movies and books feeling
"real," and the audience moving that story forward. That's the
entire point of telling stories, isn't it? No one wants to make
a movie where the audien