Cinematherapy

I just read some article in Nirmala about a unique therapy. A very unique one, cinematherapy. Wew, a kind of therapy that I will never refuse. Really, who can resist such a temptation? For a cinema freak like myself, this is a blissful heaven!!!

Now, let´s see what this therapy offered us.

Cinematherapy. From the word formation, we can see that this term comes from cinema and therapy. In short, this is a kind of therapy using film. The focus of this therapy is only the patient watching some sort of movies.

What can movie actually offer us? Well, according to some research, there are at least two kind of effect produced by watching movie. The first one is the pop corn movie therapy. (Wow, pop corn! Nice food to accompany me in watching movie). This therapy only mean that the patient will find some excitement and thus chaneling his / her emotion through the feeling they got. Included in this category are action and comedy movie. Well, in fact everytime someone watching this kind of movie, they will get carried away, hence releasing the stress which has been accumulated through time. This releasing through the excitement gotten by watching this kind of movie is the result of pop corn movie therapy.

Yeah, we know that already. But is there any other effect acquired through watching movie other than that? Well, here comes the second effect, which is the evocative effect. This one is way more serious than the previous. This is usually carried out by those with drama genre. (Oh yeah, another justification for me to keep collecting drama! Heh heh heh!!!)

In this evocative effect, the audience or the patient will identify themselves to one or more characters from the movie, thus identify the similar problem that they have. It doesn´t stop until that moment only, but widened to the point where the characters in the movie reached the solution or at least inspiring the patient that there are others with similar condition like themselves.

Furthermore, in the end of the article, it was written that some genre will give particular effect, different from the other genres. Yet, to be personal, I don´t agree with the writer that Ayat-ayat Cinta is classified as the religious movie. (NO!!! There´s no way it is a religious movie!!!!)

In the end, what is the conclusion? Well, *glancing at my pile of DVDs* let´s started watching movies!!! Steel Magnolias, here I come!