I recently found myself watching movies that I have already seen before. Not movies of any personal significance to me, rather ordinary movies with plots that were already predictable to begin with: Having seen them before takes any surprise out of the stories foreseeable turns and upheavals, that – most of the time – led to happy ending of which I already knew before. I take comfort out of this. The love won, the murder solved, the world saved – knowing the exact details in advance removes the sharade of us pretending not to know where all our stories end.<\/p>\n
How then, is this different from looking at images we already know. A picture in an advertisement that is sold on romance, although we are coerced into buying a perfume or a car. This suspension of belief: Us pretending not to know. While were enjoying this pretendig while all the time we already know. There is nothing new in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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