Meditating on Movies.

I spent last week in bed with bronchitis - all I could really sum up the energy for was watching DVDs. Today as I returned the 5 DVDs to the store I was struck by how easily I had watched 4 (one remained unwatched) DVDs in a row. This used to be something I would struggle to do. I think this is another example of how extensive our consumer mentality has become - a movie is something to entertain us in the now, something to be consumed and then discarded. An hour or a day later to be returned, forgotten, leaving us unchanged and untouched.

When was the last time you saw a movie so good that you needed to think about it for a week before seeing another one? Ok - so maybe movies being about image are not designed to promote thinking, but when was the last time you saw a movie so beautiful that you wanted to remember it and appreciate its quality for some time before moving on to the next?

Perhaps our lives have become too busy to appreciate things around us. I encourage you to take the time to appreciate the movies you watch – and if you find there is not much in them to appreciate perhaps we (I include myself in this too) need to be more discerning about what we watch.