1. (You Feel Like) Everything In Your Life Imitates A Film
This is no doubt indicative of some wider psychological issue that I darent even begin to think about or analyse (isn't confusing fiction and reality one of the symptoms of psychopathology?), but there comes a point when youve seen enough films that everything that happens in your life provides some kind of parallel with a film you've seen. The way one person you know reacts to something reminds you of something a character did in a film you watched lately. Something that happens to you bears an awful resemblance to the fate of another character in another film. Your friends life really does resemble Dantes from Clerks. You're really just Vincent Gallo's character from The Brown Bunny in a different country and without the motorbike. Tetsuo has just been a cautionary fable for me on the events of this week. That cloud you just saw really looked like the one in Magnolia Again, like the film quote issue, the only logical explanation I can personally think up for this one is that there is just so much film out there that parallels were always going to come up. The fact that a great number of films (bar the surreal ones) are striving for some kind of realism or believability, or else youd find them awfully off-putting and hard to engage with, explains this, I think/hope. Or maybe this is just blind delusion and I really ought to just see a psychoanalyst. It works for Woody Allen in all those films hes been in, right? Right? I rest my case. Since this occurs at the highest level of nerdiness, I have put this as number one, and can safely say that this is the biggest (and most worrying) issue resulting in a ruined life from enjoying films. But its worth it, though. It really is. I think. I try not to think about it too much.