The movie Cashback is a journey through everyday life, time and art, and it touched me in a way I didn't expect. I vividly remember the scene in the supermarket where the protagonist, Ben, a young student going through a painful bout of insomnia after a breakup, discovers that he can stop time. His need to find something beautiful in the routine of life, at a time when everything around him seems static, prompts him to escape through painting.

When Ben stops time at the supermarket, everything freezes. The customers stand still, the employees in unsuspecting poses, while the lights and products around him remain still, as if they live in another world. But he moves freely, and this makes him feel like a spectator of a life that evolves around him without touching him.

His particular eye for the beauty of the moment leads him to notice details that he would normally pass over - the light falling on a face, the curve of a body, the stillness of stillness. He draws the women who are there, not in a mood of cheap exploitation, but as an artist capturing the truth of the moment. His sketches are a way of imprisoning the moment and turning it into eternity.

That scene in the supermarket reminded me of something personal. How many times have I not wished I could stop time, hold the beauty of a moment and examine it without the pressure of wear and tear? The supermarket, a symbol of daily routine, is transformed into a canvas where time ceases to exist and art becomes the only reality. So I, like Ben, often look for ways to escape the stresses and pressures of everyday life, and art - whether in the form of writing or photography - becomes my outlet, my tool to make sense of life.

This scene embodied for me the idea that art is not just a creative outlet. It is an attempt to stop time, to make the moments we love immortal. Like Ben, I often find solace in creation, for it is there that the moments we fear are lost remain alive forever.