Film: Mere escape or more?

Richard Lei
5 min readDec 10, 2020
The Mummy(UMG) : Poster, 1932

People love films; ever since the advent of silent films and the rise of worldwide icons like Charlie Chaplin, audiences all over the world have been enraptured by the worlds created by filmmakers. For the first time since the invention of writing and art, people have a new medium to translate their fantastical dreams into reality. If we define an escape from reality as a defensive reaction involving the use of fantasy as a means of avoiding…

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Richard Lei

Just someone trying to express my own thoughts through writing, from the sunny coast of Singapore.