We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to i… - Robert McKee

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We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us, to live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality.

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live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality.

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