we show people a new way to dream

I was listening to my mpeg (whatever) today and one of the songs was a broadway show number ( I forget the title but it was a Sondheim piece I think) sung by a theatrical "dame" it was in essence, a song about the theatre, and it's final line wss something like the above title, "we show people a new way to dream".

The line made me think of the power of the moving picture. I have always been a fan of cinema, mainstream, arthouse anything!!! I lap it up, and this week has been rich pickings seeing that I have been off work.

so in a matter of days I have held my breath with the survivors of POSEIDON,
painfully watched a family fail to communicate in JUNEBUG, yawn myself silly with THE DaVINCI CODE, and be stunned by the horror of 9/11 in UNITED 93.

How lucky we are , when we go to the cinema,... for 2 hours we get whisked away and experience in many ways profound , never- to -be -repeated life changing events.

...perhaps I am a filmed out.........................................................