Watching people watching people. Cinema changed the voyeuristic part of our lives. People spend more time seeing people in the screen than in real life. Seeing people seeing something very attentively is almost kind of hilarious. What are they so excited about? Enough to gather around in this one space to singleminded-ly sit facing one direction? It is a powerful thing, a film, to make someone sit in a way among the crowd to pay their attention to one screen of unreal images moving around. I am looking at people looking onto a screen. And yet, this goes on for myself as well. I am not really looking at anything but a computer screen, just like the people in the image are looking onto the screen. The power and authority of the screen makes us surrender our eyes to it. Because anything unreal is so much better than the reality, or so it seems. So I sit here staring at a screen. What am I really looking at?
Image from Cinema Paradiso
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