Nope, I Have to Distract Myself

I really enjoyed Nope.

I don’t think speaking about it with spoilers will dramatically change how I think about it within the scope of this blog. It was a film that kept me captivated throughout the course of the film for the first time in a while (in a theatre). Especially after all of the things that I have been going through and trying to rationalize, there’s something I genuinely appreciated in the escapism I got out of the film. It felt like, even for a few moments (in this case two hours and eleven minutes), I could give myself the time to just stay in the present and enjoy something fully.

What I’ve been trying to figure out is how can I give myself that escapism and that sort of freedom in day-to-day life? How do I actually build in time for me to just, even if it’s for a few minutes, remind myself that there are other things I can appreciate as simple joys in life. It cannot be that I only decide to take breaks after frequent moments of burnout. I have to recognize that there is so much more space for me to be productive, to be on top of my life more importantly if I am more disciplined in how I live my life. I don’t expect it to take any time, but

I’m not one for extracting weird questions about the social commentary of this film I just watched, not because I dislike thinking deeply about movies, but because it’s so forced. Like…