We go to the cinema to see our lives reflected on the screen, but the kind of lives we don't actually experience ourselves or the same life but with differences, emotional disturbances also known as ''thrills''.
We feel that our nature needs ''shake ups'' other wise without them we become sluggish, but our best way to experience this is artificially, on the screen. When in a theatre we can see what's happening from out seats, and we can watch the struggle of life, but to appreciate the characters we have to project ourselves into their consciousness, where we get our thrills 3, which isn't a good method, watching a film we don't watching we participate in the movie.
When we are watching the films we are put in the thrillers seat, so that shudder runs through us as the audience but we know there is no harm as our subconscious knows that we are safe in our chairs just watching. Even when we leave the cinema they can leave us with a subconscious assurance of safely but yet still surprise our imagination into playing tricks on us. There is a another type of thrill where the audience seems to participate, where a certain characters have gained the audiences sympathy and is then involved in danger, and the screen can be used to make the impression of great danger when in-fact there is none.
An example of this would be that suppose the protagonist is to throw themselves over a castle rampart into a moat filled with a crocodile on stage you can hear the characters should there are crocodiles and you see the hero jump upstage and disappear and hear maybe some water splash, this isn't as affective. However when on screen you can see for yourself a terrible height, you see the reptiles swimming around you see him jump,fall,hit the water, you watch him swim away desperately you see and believe the evidence with your own eyes.
Scenes that set the blood pounding through the veins, are in-fact beneficial for indigestion, gout, rheumatism, sciatica, and premature middle age. The audience thrives on thrills, the cinema thrives from the audience, the directors thrive from the cinema so everyone wins. However ''horror'' films are entirely different situation. The term ''extreme aversion'' has been loosely applied to films, to give an emotional jolt, exploit sadism, perversion, bestiality and deformity, it is wrong to be vicious and dangerous. Its aloud to be horrific but not horrible.
Thrillers must be wholehearted the more exiting the better it is and from this we can see that the authentic ''thriller'' will thrive and the ''horror'' will soon die and fade out.
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