Putin, the pandemic, climate change, inflation . . . the horrors of life right now feel very real and escapism is our very human way of coping. Picture: Getty
A couple of weeks ago, I returned to the cinema after a long pandemic-induced hiatus. I watched the carefully photographed black-and-white scenes of Kenneth Branagh’s multi-Oscar-nominated film Belfast, while Storm Dudley or Eunice or Franklin or whichever one it was that night danced a jig on the roof.
As I sipped a can of Bacardi Mojito, which I had smuggled in in my handbag, I waited for the anticipated hit of escapism to...
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