My four kids are Marvel movie fans. My wife has seen some of the movies but I don’t remember her ever being enthusiastic about any specific Avenger outing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Caleb, Hannah, and Sarah were wanting to see the new Dr. Strange movie before the weekend was over. I was game. And maybe because it was Mother’s Day, Melissa came to the theater with us.<\/p>\n\n\n
Four of us enjoyed the movie while one of us thought it was one of the worst movies ever made.<\/p>\n\n\n
Melissa was aghast. She spent the two hours alternating between covering her eyes and looking disgusted. It turns out that the buzz around the movie – that its PG-13 rating was just inches away from an R – was true.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I, on the other hand, kind of enjoyed it. (It may have helped that I went in with low expectations.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Author Scott Adams writes about a phenomenon he calls “two movies on one screen” – the way in which two intelligent adults can look at the exact same situation – be it personal or political or whatever – and react as if they are seeing two completely different scenarios.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
What strikes one as innocent fun, the other finds deeply offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n
What amuses one, another finds horrifying.<\/p>\n\n\n
What impresses one as heroic, another mocks as ridiculous.<\/p>\n\n\n
And so it goes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Through all of life.<\/p>\n\n\n
As Adams puts it, “Living in completely different realities is our normal way of living.” (Win Bigly<\/i>, 67)<\/p>\n\n\n
If you assume that you and the person next to you are seeing the same reality, you are oblivious.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I don’t know why it took me 50 years to recognize the prevalence of this dynamic in real life, when it obviously happens at the theaters all the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
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