The Movie of Your Life

Imagine there were hidden cameras capturing the actions you take in your journey towards greatness. Would you act any differently?

Movies are depictions of life. They are caricatures of ourselves, our emotions, and what makes us, us. They are characterized by the exaggerations that make a movie more interesting, more believable, and more relatable. These artifacts are not purely manufactured in the minds of the writers. They are adapted from the formative experiences of our lives, made powerful by their relatability despite all of our unique differences.

The best movies for us as an individual tend not to be the best movies for everyone as a collective. Your favourite anything can say a lot about you. The movie you like most might be a movie that broke box office records, but it also might not be one. Your life is obviously more complex and nuanced than any movie could capture in a device with concentrated storytelling, intentional direction, and endless editing compressed in a two-hour bottle designed to keep our attention.

Life is…not that.

Life is more routine than we’d like to admit, and somehow our routines are less routine than we’d like.

Life, a collection of short and long films that merge on the same through line. You are the one thread binding them all together and tying in a consistent viewpoint.

But don’t lose the script, your string of thread isn’t drifting through space alone.

Life is also a multiplayer game. Many of the same events appear on other threads. A copy with a slightly different viewpoint and collection of meta-thoughts. We tie our threads together at some points and dissolve them down the line. At the end of the day, we pull on a single thread that undoes it all.

The best part about a movie are the moments marked with great emotion. They don’t exist in a vacuum, for they wouldn’t carry the same punch. These moments exist in a chain, one linking to another and another.

Movies make light of these moments by adding a layer of story telling from holding the shot a little longer than expected, creating tension between two characters, and leaving you wanting more. A good movie treats you with respect and rewards you for your attention, as does a good life.