It’s been a rough year for all of us, and we’ve all found ways to cope and bring ourselves joy throughout the last eight months. Some of us (okay, many of us) have taken up baking and have mastered the sourdough starter by now. A number of us (myself included) have adopted four-legged friends in the forms of cats and dogs. Others have picked up a new musical instrument or learned a new language. Still others have blown the dust off a long-neglected personal project. Many more of us haven’t added anything new to our plate but have just tried to survive \u2013\u00a0and that’s totally okay. And we’ve all watched many, many hours of movies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stephen King once wrote, “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” So are movies \u2013\u00a0though, with the responsible among us staying home and not traveling or engaging in outside social activities \u2013\u00a0they don’t have to be that portable for now. Movies have the ability to transport us, especially now, when we’re largely confined to the same people in the same four walls in our real lives. More than ever, we have reason to be grateful movies exist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I asked Twitter to tell me why they’re thankful for movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n