Films are definetely an escape. Entertainment in general, is an escape.
I mean isn't that why, when films were first being made, simultaneously in many countries, the masses flocked to the cinema? To escape their everyday, ordinary lives? To escape their harsh realities?
Films are an escape. Even if they're realist, or true stories, or political, or meant to be taken as a message, they provide an escape for 2-3 hours from your real life. You can sit there and stare at the screen, and totally be absorbed by what you're seeing and hearing. Your real life does not matter when this occurs, only what's in front of you.
This also happens with books. The fun kind though, not the history or textbook kind.
How many times have we all wished that we could escape our realities and live what we see, hear, or read instead? Or even just a compromise of that?
Is entertainment an escape? From your present, from your reality, from your surroundings?
I think it can be, but not always, because sometimes films smack me hard in the face and wake me up. But most of the time, they're an escape. The definite escape.
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