Reality and Complacency

Movie reality.  What does that 'mean'?  Dude?  Is it like all, "no way! that is so reeel!" or like, "dude.  This just got real."

I don't believe it's either.

Pinning down reality as a fact is a matter of fiction.  Some of the obstacles that are in the way of thwarting this statement are: perception, intention, and reason- to name a few.  

Reality can be taken from 3 perspectives mainly: the creator, the 'consumer', and the observer.  The one who creates the reality has control over it to some extent.  There are rules- as such in film, music, solar systems, etc.  This control within the rules that are set up is what creates the setting or environment of the 'reality' in question.  

Reason, then from some sentient being "the consumer", is used to address the situation as it is.  If in a movie- they may question the premise with: "why?"  Why is this here.  Then all the other "w's" follow.  These view can be varied as most 'consumers' will be occupying separate minds- at least from what we know.

The last person who could be involved is any third party who takes into account the situation as a whole.  They see and question the whole process without being a creator or a consumer.  Then they are able to analyze the situation with the least bias (unless of course they are a mixture of consumer and observer- then the system starts to fail).

So related it all to cinema.  Someone- perhaps a group of people fall in line of being the creator in this instance.  They produce a reality that has certain parameters of understanding.  This meaning it is not something else inherently.  It is unique unless intentionally emulated.  This created 'thing' now is finished- it is passed on by some medium to 'the consumer' and is witnessed.  Their perception will filter out what they do and don't believe.  They will then choose to consider what is reality and what is not.  There are too many variables to even mention here, but to name a few- mood, values, past experiences, etc. will change the direction of belief from here on out.  Which is important.  Here is why no one reality for any one thing will exist.

Now moving on to the observer.  Let's say it is the professor in a film class.  Someone who is analyzing what students take from the 'creation-consumer' process.  Although they have once been a consumer, and might very well be a creator, they now have a different role.  They see the process take place and get to decipher how the process has taken place.  They get to hear, from the consumer, what reality they have and try to explain it to the observer.  There aren't necessarily right answers for the question of "what is real in this shot?" but are finding out answers that could lead to a reasonable 'average' for what reality could have been intended by the creator.

*A short cut to the process is to hear directly from the creator.  Not as much fun.  Well, maybe for some.  Who knows.

So.  I really didn't argue whether reality is real, but that sort of gives one perspective- one that I don't even know if I agree with, but one that seems to be a working model of how the process of reality flows in a specific medium such as cinema.

Hmm...