Birgit Wolz - E-Motion Picture Magic-A Movie Lover\'s Guide to Healing and Transformation

Exercise: Creating Your Film Matrix

Fill out your own Film Matrix. Select film characters

that touched you most, in a positive or negative way.

You can choose Grand Canyonor any other movie.

It is usually easier and equally beneficial to choose

characters from different films because not every

movie is so full of diverse characters as Grand

Canyon. If you choose to start with only one movie,

you may be able to fill out certain parts of the

matrix first. As you keep watching films, and

observe your responses to more characters, you will

be able to complete the matrix eventually. I suggest

using films that affect you emotionally or in which

one or several characters touched you.

Your Film Matrix:

Character you like most like least

identify with III

strongly or in

some ways

identify with III IV

less or not at all

Guidelines for your Film Matrix:

These guidelines can be used right after watching one spe-

cific movie or while reflecting on all the films you can remem-

ber:

Quadrant I: Has there been one character that you especially

liked and with whom you especially identified? Was there a

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