It is crazy to think how fast time goes. It feels like just yesterday the news of the two-week break from school was announced around the world, and like all the memes, news articles, and social media posts, it went from two weeks to two years. I came into the pandemic as a fifteen-year-old and in a few months I’ll be eighteen. I was a tenth-grader having tons of fun everyday and in a few months I’ll be off to college. Time was scarily faster when I was at home, but there was one thing that kept me sane and comforted: movies. Sounds corny, I know, but in a time where we needed human interaction, the outside world, or an escape from reality, movies were a package deal for comfort.
In the past two years, I’ve watched a variety of movies that fifteen-year-old me never knew I would’ve watched. I used to be terrified of horror movies, but came the pandemic, came my sudden interest in the classics – and the new corny ones too. I even ventured into period dramas of people in ballroom gowns, powdered wigs or a young woman with her father, mother, and sisters in the English countryside (totally not talking about Pride and Prejudice).
I also rewatched the movies I grew up to love. Whether I felt nostalgic for my childhood and rewatched a movie about an orange creature who advocates for trees, or I felt like I missed my friends and rewatched teen comedies and coming-of-age flicks we used to watch together, or I missed the feeling of the cinemas and watched an action-packed superhero movie with sound system speakers to really get that cinema feel.
That is the beauty of movies and films, and what makes me want to make some in the future. The stories are endless, the imagination is unlimited, and the creativity never stops. What was your favorite movie you discovered, rewatched, or fell in love with during these past two years?
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