Marsha Sinetar points out in “Reel Movies” that movies can make you see and feel your life differently. Movies are the mythology of our time. Their stories are ours. They are our reflections, our shadows, our losses, and perhaps our ultimate truth. If this wonderful book can make you see that, it is well worth the price of admission.
Are you a person who ponders the magic of movies? Do you feel a rush when the lights go down and the film begins to roll? Are you someone who muses over a movie long after the credits have stop rolling? If yes, then your cinematic sensibilities will at long last be satisfied with Marsha Sinetar’s provocative treatise on the spiritual value of film.
Steve Martin once said, ” all of life’s questions are answered on Star Trek”. He was not far from the truth. All the answers you seek are placed in front of you, in a child’s smile, in problems at work, a blocked intersection, in the millions of situations life presents before you. All you have to do is to be open to see them.
We know that movies do not come from fairyland. They are not magically made, but they do bring magic. Marsha Sinetar simply points out in “Reel Movies” that movies (which are larger than life) can make you see and feel your life differently. When George Bailey was called the richest man in the town in “It’s a Wonderful Life” the audience felt the same feeling (both physically and emotionally) as when your child speaks his first word or when at your daughter wedding she says, “I do”.
Movies are the mythology of the 20th (and now 21st) century. Their stories are ours. They are our reflections, our shadows, our losses, and perhaps our ultimate truth. If this wonderful book can make you see that, it is well worth the price of admission.
Author: Marsha Sinetar
Year of Release: 1983
