I watched a movie a day for a year and here's what happened.

Movies. Moving pictures. Them photo-ma-what-its-but-they-move. As Scorcese might say: C I N E M A (cinema, if ya nasty). Who doesn't love a good movie? Plopping down on the couch for a night of laughs or wall to wall action, strolling through your favorite theater with a big box of popcorn in your hands, or even watching something on the train home from work? Perfect. That's my happy place right there. Except that, for a while, it wasn't. I actually fell out of watching movies pretty hard in 2020. So, when I started getting back into them in 2023, I decided to try something interesting. I thought to give watching a movie every day a go to see what would happen to me. And now, a year later, it's time to review the results and try to figure out whether it was a waste of time or not. I'll parlay my personal experiences, my thoughts on the challenge itself, and share some research I did into the subject of cinematherapy/how the arts are great for our growth as people to discuss how watching a movie everyday was one of the highlights of my year. And not for lack of doing much this year too, might I add! #cinema #filmanalysis #videoessay Chapters: 00:00 - Pre-roll 00:51 - Intro/The Challenge’s Background 7:37 - The Million Dollar Question (Do I hate movies now?) 10:35 - Desensitized toward film 13:46 - Variety (not the magazine) 18:37 - A psychological perspective (CinemaTherapy) 28:35 - The shortcomings of doing this challenge 37:38 - Would I do this again?/Signoff Join INT. Film Discord by clicking this link:   / discord   Socials: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nichecaesar.... Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/nichecaesar Media Obscura and Glaring Admissions (Podcast): https://pod.link/themediaobscura Guppy Falls (eBook): https://a.co/d/isBwHfu Chapters: 00:00 - Pre-roll 00:51 - Intro/Background 7:37 - The Million Dollar Question (Do I hate movies now?) 10:35 - Desensitized toward film