Anyone else here has difficulty following the plot of the movies that you watch? The movies that i watched before i became sick i understand quite well but the new movies i just don’t understand them anymore.
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My dear friend, The World is always new and different and it’s the same with life.
So, you never need to understand what you watch.
Just watch, live and enjoy, that is the essence of life. - Way One To Go.
It’s hard to enjoy a movie if you don’t understand what is going on…
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Watch what interests you. And, yes there is joy in it. You know due to thought disorder, cognitive dysfunction and serious memory issues so many frames and such miss my thoughts but I still find something entertaining in what I watch and if I can’t then I simply have to find what I am looking for.
If you simply watch that would not help as our brains are damaged
instead if you simply watch what you are looking for bingo happiness
So don’t watch
Watch what you are looking for
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Even if it’s horror movie that describes how they helled me, how they are helling me and how they are going to hell me
I just laugh for I am looking at it as a master piece of comedy but not a horror show…
After all Life is a comic book of errors, if I say so ???
I’m still good at understanding the big picture in stories, but my memory is wacky. I can store enough memory, but to recall something simple like understanding why a character is doing something, I have to think hard to pull out the memory. The recall’s ridiculously slow.
It makes entertainment feel like a painful chore. And i get thought blocking which takes me out of the moment. Climactic scenes get ruined for me.
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Can’t agree more.
I’ve tried to follow this philosophy at times. It can really help, but oh do I miss the old days. And I feel like I have to get into whole new types of movies, or shows and discard what I used to love. I don’t like the big change. But you can realize that you overlook small bits of joy by trying so hard to be the old you.
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The old me, I mean the younger me ( old me - past me - younger me ) had heaven in my head, no matter what I watch it was only heaven now I can see hell.
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I stopped watching the movies long back. I can’t at times follow what’s happening, sometimes I even felt like those things are happening around me for real.
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I always lived that for real. Like movies is nothing but my life or my life’s reflections, as if the others, they are teasing/helling me.
i dont really care much about movies but i like watching Poirot and see how people are dressed in the 1920s - 1950s.
I used to watch movies a lot, a few years ago. I don’t really watch movies anymore because they usually end up triggering me.
books are okay though.
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Watching documentaries instead of fiction might help. I would find something that connects with you on an emotional level.
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yea, had the same problem first year of schizo… today, I enjoy movies I watched back then - coz it’s like watching it for the first time 
back then, didn’t get a single scene from all the videos/movies I watched