Sensei: You know what freedom is?
Bob: What?
Sensei: No fear. Just like Tom fucking Cruise.
- One Battle After Another
A 2020 study conducted by researchers from UCL’s Department of Experimental Psychology (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences) and Vue Entertainment discerned a direct correlation between watching a film and the impact it has on our brain function, social connections, productivity and creativity. Professor Joseph Devlin remarked that "heart rate and electrodermal activity, an indirect measure of emotional arousal, go up and down with the narrative arc of the movie – meaning their heart rates elevate and drop depending on their engagement with the story."
Fifty years before that study was conducted, Cat Stevens remarked: "Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world. It's hard to get by just upon a smile."
Taking these two things together, I've concluded that we all need to watch more movies. Time to step back into the recent past to list the films that emotionally aroused me the most last year. No fear. Just like Tom Fucking Cruise.
28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)
It Was Just an Accident (Yek tasadof-e sadeh) (Jafar Panahi)
The Luckiest Man in America (Samir Oliveros)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Dane-ye anjir-e ma'abed) (Mohammad Rasoulof)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
Sister Midnight (Karan Kandhari)
Thunderbolts* (Jake Schreier)
I don't think anyone was expecting Marvel to make a movie about mental health and depression.
Tornado (John Maclean)
Weapons (Zach Cregger)
Close But No Cigar
The Long Walk (Francis Lawrence)
Pillion (Harry Lighton)
Superman (James Gunn)
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