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Always quick to crack wise, Groucho Marx once quipped, “I find television very educating — every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” To be sure, the valiant maestro of Vaudeville understood a truism that seems to be at the root of our current great leap forward. While we pay a great deal of lip service to the alleged benefits of entertainment, in the end, what we are actually seeking is a kind of release.
There is no way around the fact that as human beings we are obsessed with movies. Classic movies, scary movies, funny movies, movies about movies, movies about movies about movies — we can’t get enough. The appeal of the moving image is taken for granted now. Now, we’re used to seeing ourselves replayed — and redefined. In fact, we’ve come to accept the image on the screen, in many ways, as what counts, what is real. How could conventional reality compare?
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