Do I have weird emotions?

**Lory** · 05-03-2009, 10:55 PM

So I'm a quite emotional person (though I'm working on it because crying in public is NOT something I like). Yet, when I watch movies I don't feel anything. I watched the Notebook just now. Nothing. I watched Pearl Harbour. Nothing. I watched Titanic, Walk the Line, The Green Mile. Nothing.

Yet, as soon as I read a book that I like and it has a sad ending, I bawl my eyes out. I even cry when a good book finished happily just because I didn't want it to end.

Isn't that sort of weird, because our brain remembers or takes in a lot more of what is visual as in pictures and movies than of what is read. Or so I've learned in school.

05-03-2009, 10:56 PM

Maybe your brain doesn't.

Or maybe you just don't connect to the drama in those movies. They are pretty over-the-top dramatic. But books...there's a difference. Books, if you get into them (which it sounds like you do) can have a strong impact on you. And, from a book lover's perspective, books are more emotionally fused.

Think about it: a movie develops the character's image and personality for you. But, with a book, you develop the characters' voices, appearance, and connection with yourself.

For the last few years I have had a 10:3 ratio of books to movies that I read/watch. And I find that I get more into books and find movies to be a waste of time.