Movie Enjoyment = Conscious + Subconscious OppThink

You may not realize it, but in order to enjoy a film, your brain does a great deal of opposite thinking, on both a conscious and unconscious level.

First the unconscious OppThink: what is film, really? 24 single frames going by your eye each second (or, in the case of video, about 30 fps, but who's counting). In other words, single static images, going by your eye really fast. And there is also the in-between non-information part of film: the blackness between images. Luckily, it all goes by so fast we don't notice the blackness, nor the static nature of what is really in front of our eyes. Fortunately for us, what some might call a "limitation" in our sensory system results in the motion illusion (fast moving images perceived as motion by our brain), which the film industry has cleverly turned into a "benefit" (motion pictures, based on the ability to see motion when there is none). Motion pictures = moving images = movies.

But why do movies move us? How do we get emotionally invested in them? That is where the conscious OppThink comes in: suspension of disbelief. We know, logically, that the people onscreen are actors and not the people they are portraying. Plus, in the digital age, sometimes they are not even people at all! But we suspend all that knowledge -- willingly assume the opposite of the truth -- in order to enjoy the story.

In short, there's a whole lotta OppThink goin' on at the movies.
All of it is key to enjoying a film and "getting into it."