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It's not one or the other and it's both at the same time and nothing at all.
sometimes escapism and sometimes realism because for humans we are trying so hard to find the missing pieces and right now: it's not raising children we are not sure we are raising right and it's not the job 99% of people hate getting up in the morning for so we can buy things that break in two weeks and didn't need in the first place and it's not the people that surround us filling our lives with more nonsense and unwanted drama....
when you walk into a movie about war, we walk out with knowledge... on so many levels. same is true on any real subject a movie tackles, I found out more from Schindlers List than any information about the holocaust taught to me in school-with the added benefit of the emotional aspect...of finding tremendous EMPATHY lacking by reading about it in a textbook.
We watch fantasy and horror and comedy to escape and sometimes find a little piece of that adventure our hearts desire. The way life SHOULD be...life should be funny and slapstick and romantic and FUN!
Fantasy especially...I want my fucking life to be a fucking adventure, I do not want to toil all fucking day and fall asleep exhausted and then get up and the first thing that hits me is DREAD.
I want love and desire that lights my hair on fire and flying fucking horses to starbucks for some magic coffee beans that grows all sorts of wonderful shit and taking my kid to the park and finding a nest of fucking faeries and walk into my fucking closet and OMG there's a fucking DOOR into another world!
I forget what my point was...
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