Every
movie you see saves you a few cycles of living through another
"groundhog day", because you learn from the mistakes you see others
make in the movies and see heroes to emulate.
 
For our
generation, movies and tv were/are the shared mythologies of the
day.  There is a wonderful old episode of Northern Exposure TV
show that addresses that–where one of the characters tries to
interview people inthe town about their ancestral and current
mythologies but discovers that the shared images and metaphors they all
have are from movies–just like all men knowing exactly what a certain
scene or two from the Godfather movies "means" to them as men trying to
function inthe world.
 
This current generation seems to
still have movies as their mythology shared, but also you tube, etc.–I
have witnessed amazing conversations among twenty something year olds
that seemed to be entirely shared you tube view reactions.
 
The
movie thing has probably helped you skip ahead a lot in your own
unfolding of remembering of god–sort of like the prodigal son getting
to skip some of the wastral years and then take a more direct flight
back to the Father's house.
 
The way the Course in Miracles
phrases it is that it is the function of the Teachers of God to "save
time"–because each of them that witnesses to the Truth of God that
they have seen/experienced helps others take little time leaps over
their own learning curve.
 
Eastern religions that use a lot
of reincarnation metaphors would call it getting to skip over many
reincarnations to ultimate Nirvana