Films are films after all !!!

I wonder what is more important fiction or facts when one makes a choice of watching a film. Recently the city of Toronto has got a major event happening that is Hotdocs 2010-a documentary film festival where for more than a week around hundred documentary films were screened. Most of the venues were flocked by people trying their luck through the rush lines just to grab a ticket to watch their favorite documentary film.

Events like these definitely provide us a peep into the lives of people belonging to different parts of the world. Whether it is a story of four babies been brought up in four different parts of world or about Bin Laden's chief bodyguard, it adds to our knowledge of outer world. I think even a mere awareness of these issues is relevant in context of the times we are living in.

For most people films are a source of entertainment and at its best an escape from their stressed out lives. it is indulgence to get lost into the fantasy land. But after sometime this sort of cinema becomes monotonous and extremely predictable. As innovation does not always work so tried and tested formula films are made. Ironman 2 becomes the rage of the day. Believe me, it is perishable but if it makes money then worth it.

As a viewer I think our viewing should not be atypical. Rather it is an assimilation of films of different flavors and fervors.