A random thought

This was triggered by the score (overture?) to the Narnia movie (the first one: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe) coming over my Pandora stream:

I wonder if superhero movies, or fantasy movies like LWW, or even stuff like Game of Thrones (which I've never seen but falls into the fantasy genre) resonate with some of us because we want to do big great things with our lives, but for most of us in the modern world, that's not really possible.

I mean, I'll never be in a position to be an archer in an army that takes down a tyrannical witch and helps restore the proper rule of a nation. Or I'll never save a city from a bad guy. Or I'll never even reunite a family where one member went missing....but I kind of wish I could. I wonder if the mundanity of so many of our lives makes us long for the possibility of doing something like being Baymax or Lucy Pevensie or, I don't know, some kind of a hero.

And I know, I know: there are some people who claim getting up every day and going to work and doing the job you were hired for is "heroic," but I don't see it that way.

I don't know if immersing ourselves for a couple hours in a world where that kind of heroic action - where you literally COULD save an entire city from a supervillain - is possible makes us feel better or worse about our day to day lives.

(Oddly, no. I never expressed a desire to be a firefighter as a kid but I suspect the reason so many kids do is that the firefighter is one of the few professions where you can do truly heroic things.)