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it was one of the few places I was aware I might actually be saved—because movies were a religion in that moment, they could change you, alter your perception, you could rise toward the screen and share a moment of transcendence, all the disappointments and fears would be wiped away for a few hours in that church: movies acted like a drug for me.
about—did I look like an asshole? I’d briefly wonder—before thinking: I look so cool I don’t care.
we were aware that we were all in the same film even though we all wanted different endings.
I WAS LUCKY. I was a Pisces. I was the sign of two fish swimming in opposite directions—a dreamer, moving ceaselessly upstream, not entirely rational, prone to notions, but blindly pursuing whatever I wanted, a romantic, an individualist who needed no part of the crowd.
