For me, movies really represent the next stage of storytelling as a medium. It started with oral traditions, then literature, radio, and now TV and film. Some say that such a visually-reliant form makes people lazy, but I respectfully disagree. While some things are better executed in our own imaginations, others work best when we can actually see them. A good example is the idea of flight, with characters like Superman or the Green Lantern. You can dream of what its like to soar through the clouds, with no fear of death...but to experience it would be one of the most freeing things in the world. We haven't figured out how to perfectly accomplish that yet, but movies allow us to get fairly close.
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