Dilman Dila

last night, I watched The 40 Year Virgin. With a married woman. We were alone in my two room apartment. I on the bed, she on a chair. Not that we intended to do anything, but it seemed funny watching this movie with a married woman in your room.

The movie wasn't as much fun as the script. I read the script a month ago and it was fun, I laughed more times than I can remember, but when I watched the movie, it didn't seem so funny. It's a great movie, right, but not a 'laugh-loud' comedy as the script seemed to suggest. It's a 'smile-smile, feel-good' comedy.

That got me thinking. Movies immitate life, but writing really offers one an escape from reality. If you READ a story, you will enjoy it much more than when you WATCH that story. Funny? Strange? And I think for anyone who wants to enjoy a story, reading is the better option.

American's won't like that. They don't love reading. :-) So they've pushed for movies to be the major story telling medium, just as they've made Coca Cola the major soft drink in the world. That's sad. Maybe we should give more support to Oprah and her book club, se we can get more people reading than watching TVs.