Why do we love movies and television so much?

There are many different answers to that question, and all of them are correct. The special effects. The comedy. The action. The sex. The impossible situations the writers place the characters into in order to play with our emotions. All of the above. All for our entertainment.

At least, these are all reasons we'll admit out loud.

I believe there's a deeper reason, and one that not many people may think about very much, if at all. As human beings, I think we suck at communication. That's my observation, at least. We never say what we mean. We hide our true feelings. We act like everything is fine when it isn't. We pretend to like someone because we don't have the balls to let them know otherwise, or we're too scared to hurt them.

Movies and television aren't like that. There's a conflict, typically a big one combined with a smaller more personal one that is somehow ironically parallel to the big one, and at the end both are resolved at the same time. People are nice to each other. They talk. They share their feelings. They communicate and let each other know how they feel.

And I believe we like movies and television because we wish we were like that.