I agree. Like the Beach Boys song “I wasn’t made for these times,” sometimes i feel like i am not really meant for this “era.” Movies help me through this a lot. In them, i find a lot of the honor, character, and earnestness i feel is missing in our society. In movies, we can find heroism, justice, the elusive concept of “black and white”, redemption, and all like things. My good movies for this fix are Seven Samurai, The Searchers, Gladiator, the Kill Bill flicks, etc. It’s all about filling in the missing pieces, really. In the movies, Bogart doesn’t get tired of Ingrid Bergman and cheat on her, Bruce Lee doesn’t go crooked, etc. People seem more consistant.
However, i don’t mean to say these things don’t exist in movies, the corruption of man, etc. But more often than not, our foibles, misgivings, fears, and other such things are adressed, if not solved. And movies, unlike drugs, promiscuity, alcoholism, and the like can inspire and lift us higher, if only for a moment. Thats my rant on the subject!