I love behind the scenes........

it is almost as if watching the film itself in the theatre is trompe d'oeil. It looks so real, but what I am seeing is only a piece of the whole picture: everything you see is imagery and metaphor: meta-phor. This may be one of the reasons that seeing movies is one of my favorite activities. All of it requires metacognition, so I often feel as if though I could let myself become absorbed by the story, but I won't, because is it just as  much fun to think about what the director imagined and then how he or she decides to communicate that image to me. I love my movies.