I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it controlling it thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents and when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no parent left to tell them.