If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
“I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.”
“They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.”