Watching a movie is just to have a few hours to dive into other people's world, not to escape reality, but to find the courage to face reality, and find it in normal circumstances, with occasional exceptions, leisure time is not counted be a waste.
Cecilia, the heroine in "Purple Rose of Cairo", uses watching movies to make up for the boredom and loneliness of real life: her husband is grumpy and often beats himself and does nothing to live a disorderly life; in order to make a living, he has to go to restaurants as a host. Until the male protagonist Tom on the screen suddenly came out and confessed to the female protagonist, making the female protagonist face her life again, from cheating her husband to be a nanny in the city at the beginning of the date, to refusing to go home with her husband after the husband and Tom fought. Saying "I'm tired of your orders." (at this time the heroine has begun to face her husband) is Tom who made the heroine feel loved, and Tom made the heroine start to resist. Tom is a character in the movie, and he represents fiction as well as the movie itself. This is what the film brings to us: comfort for the wounded heart, and the courage to rebel against reality.
No matter whether Gil, who plays Tom, really falls in love with the heroine, Gil is the one who makes the heroine really decide to leave her husband and get rid of her current life. In the end, the heroine did not choose a virtual Tom but a real Gil. It can be seen that the movie is by no means for us to choose to escape and indulge in the dreamy virtuality, but to accumulate energy in the virtuality and fight back in reality. Although real life is always unsatisfactory, it always exists, and although virtual screens are gentle and sweet, they are always short-lived.
At the end of the movie, Gil abandoned the heroine and flew back to Hollywood by herself. The heroine walked into the cinema again with tears in her eyes and watched the men and women dance on the screen, smiling again.
This is why we love watching movies, no matter how painful the first second is, there will always be a faint smile after the movie starts
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