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We all love entertainment. The movies, with their fascinating world of fiction, dreams and beliefs, fun or action, or true stories appearing on the big screen, feeding the soul with their glamorous fantasies, or truth, captivate audiences of all ages around the world. It is something that our culture treasures and welcomes more than politics or even the news.
I personally support that idea, because the news seems to have become biased and opinionated to the degree that it influences who we elect as our President. The news is really not news anymore, but rather the tainted opinion expressed covertly by some journalists who are actually hired by stations that now belong to entertainment companies. Hence comes sensation and sometimes fiction. One station even has a segment that discusses which “news” was “so true” and which was “so false.” Therefore, I mostly prefer to enjoy a good action movie, a fiction, or a comedy expressing some dark or bright side of the human psyche, not only making me think through story telling, but at the very least it lets me think for myself. The news on the other hand, especially on some specific channels, simply tells me what to think!
While the news is becoming what it’s becoming, the world of entertainment and its creative minds have been shaping our spiritual and intellectual journey since its inception. And they did it very steadfastly and reliably. Mainly because they do not impose on the viewer: by their very nature they are entertainment. Yet, creative film has not only adapted to the new age of spiritual and metaphysical evolution, following the age of electronics, but it actually shaped and encouraged our spiritual evolutionary path through its creative expression of the nature of man, which requires as much study as trying to understand quantum physics. Some of the latest movies touching on these ideas are the Matrix Trilogies, or The Day The Earth Stood Still, both of which has its hero played by Keanu Reeves suggesting to the audience that there is more to life than meets the open eye.
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