Keepin It Reel

I have the special talent of making superb pancakes just like Marie in the movie. It began at a friend's house where I and a few other girls had slept over. We woke up the next morning, and I was the only willing volunteer to help the host make breakfast. I whisked the pancake mix, eggs, milk, the usual ingredients...but then thought that something else might sound good in there too. So I added my secret ingredients and everyone went nuts over my one of a kind chocolate chip pancakes. That was my first experience in making pancakes, but since then I have become an expert by practicing and watching to know just the right moment to flip, the precise chocolate to batter ratio, etc. It is an art, really. I love the smell of the cooking batter, the stickiness on my hands, my sometimes burnt finger tips, the smile on Dane's face when he eats them, watching him attempt to create a masterpiece (which are usually way undercooked for fear of burning them). I also enjoy making crepes because of the many different toppings you can add, but as for pancakes, I just eat them plain. I cannot stand syrup! It is liquid sugar, way too sweet and rich, and would ruin the blissful fluffiness I adore.

I do think that you can fall in love with someone within three days, without a doubt it can happen. It's not rocket science, it's just a matter of being comfortable around one another. Not a mushy gushy fireworks kind of feeling necessarily, just someone you can talk to about anything, and laugh with and hold hands with. Someone who is your best friend but you really want to kiss them at the same time. People have a natural instinct to bond with people or not, sometimes your personalities click, sometimes they clash, sometimes they fall together perfectly like puzzle pieces. I think it's really just about being together and feeling safe with that person, not like you have to try to impress them, but that you can simply be yourself and that's more than enough for them. Love isn't really about the physical attraction as much as it is the connection and bonding between two spirits, because when it comes down to it, who you are is on the inside, and if you only love the outside of someone, you haven't really found them yet to know if you love them or not.

My favorite movie is impossible to narrow down, but the qualities of a great movie in my mind are this:
Good music, highs and lows through music
Real plot, realistic goals, believable plot, meaningful plot
Real acting, passionate acting, lively connection between characters
Consistency throughout scenes
At least a little bit of romance
Surprise ending, plot twist, believable plot twist, logical surprise ending
Comic relief throughout

The kinds of movies I don't usually care for too much are those that are crude in one way or another, whether it be overbearing foul language, a lot of (unnecessary) sexual content, too much gore and/or violence, etc. I do quite enjoy dramas, action, and even the occasional horror film, but I do believe these are just as easily accomplished without the secular additives. I do appreciate the fact that movies have ratings as warnings for the content, but anymore, a PG13 or even a PG movie (where kids will definitely be present) can get away with an awful lot to still be considered PG. This is unsettling to how all conservativeness has simply gone out the window and how desensitized our society is to such vulgar content on an enormous screen in public or even in our own homes.

I watch movies quite often, we don't have cable at my house so I love an outing to the theater to see a new release! Or, what I like maybe even more is renting an old classic to watch at home with a friend with a big comfy blanket. I like to have a cup of hot tea or cocoa to watch a movie with at home, I definitely like to be warm. Going to movies is a typical bonding experience for my family and me, but my friends and I, or Dane and I, prefer to stay home to watch one. Dane is kind of a home body, and so am I, but where going out is concerned, among the small list of places I go, movies would have to be at the top.

Your Personality and Film Use Results

Thanks for taking part! Your results are as follows:

Results

YOUR PERSONALITY
Take a look at how you scored on the Big Five personality dimensions below.
Your scores, compared with the responses of other people, suggest that you may be described as follows:

YOU ARE 100% EXTRAVERTED. You are extraverted, outgoing, active and high-spirited. You prefer to be around people most of the time.

YOU ARE 100% AGREEABLE. You are compassionate, good natured, and eager to cooperate and avoid conflict.

YOU ARE 100% CONSCIENTIOUS. You are conscientious and well organised. You have high standards and always strive to achieve goals.

YOU ARE 67% EMOTIONALLY STABLE. You are generally calm and able to deal with stress, but you sometimes experience feelings of guilt, anger and sadness.

YOU ARE 92% OPEN TO NEW EXPERIENCES. You are open to new experiences. You have broad interests and are very imaginative.


WHY YOU WATCH MOVIES

We have proposed 10 psychological uses for watching films.
Below are your scores for each of these 10 uses, and the relevant descriptions of the ways in which you enjoy films.



PLEASURE-SEEKING: 70%

NOSTALGIA: 65%

Your high score on the “pleasure seeking” dimension suggests that you are a hedonistic movie watcher – this means you enjoy films that give you pleasure or make you feel good.

The “nostalgia” dimension refers to the extent to which you watch movies in order to re-experience the past. Your score on this dimension is average or similar to most people.






CATHARSIS: 50%

AGGRESSION: 30%

The “catharsis” dimension refers to the extent to which you watch movies in order to feel miserable and suffer with the characters of the movie. Your score on this dimension is average or similar to most people.

The “aggressive” dimension refers to the extent to which you enjoy watching violent movies in order to release aggression or tension. Your score on this dimension is average or similar to most people.






ESCAPISM: 50%

SENSATION-SEEKING: 25%

The “escapism” dimension refers to the extent to which you watch movies in order to escape or forget about reality. Your score on this dimension is average or similar to most people.

Your low score on the “sensation seeking” dimension suggests that you do not watch movies in order to experience arousing feelings – thus you do not have a tendency to prefer exciting or adrenaline-fuelled movies.






ARTISTIC: 50%

INFORMATION-SEEKING: 30%

The “artistic” dimension refers to the extent to which you are interested in aesthetically driven, conceptual, and highly creative films. Your score on this dimension is average or similar to most people.

The “information seeking” dimension refers to the extent to which you are a curious and intellectual movie watcher. Your score on this dimension is average or similar to most people.






BOREDOM-AVOIDANCE: 50%

SOCIALISATION: 75%

The “boredom avoidance” dimension refers to the extent to which you watch films primarily as a means of avoiding boredom. Your score on this dimension is average or similar to most people.

Your high score on the “socialising” dimension suggests that you are more interested in the company of others than the actual movie; and that you rarely see the point of watching movies alone. Watching movies is a social experience for you.






(The pictures above are demonstrative of the highest instance of each film use dimension, and do not necessarily relate to your own score.) The aim of this study is to examine how people's personalities relate to the reasons they watch films. For instance, extraverted people are expected to watch films socially and in a pleasure-seeking way, but not to induce catharsis. Agreeable people are expected to watch films in a pleasure-seeking way as well, but would not be expected to enjoy aggressive movies; while conscientious people would also not be expected to enjoy aggressive films, but rather would watch films in an information-seeking way. Emotionally-stable people would be expected to watch films for pleasure-seeking, but not in a nostalgic way, nor for catharsis, escapism or artistic merit. Open people would be expected to watch films for their escapism, artistic value, information-seeking, sensation-seeking and boredom-avoidance dimensions, but not in the pursuit of nostalgia.