Movie Latecomers: What Are They Thinking?
An unapologetic screed against disrespect for cinema.
(Screenshot from the Fandango app.)
You know how it goes.
It happens after the 20 minute blitzkrieg of mindless trailers, each of which leaves you never wanting to see another movie in a movie theater or be in the vicinity of anyone who might be titillated by such overcooked and unremitting bombast.
It happens just as the first frames of the film you’ve come to see appear on the screen and you are focusing with all of our expectant faculties on image, sound, energy, event, trying to take in the reverberations of emotion and tone, and searching already for some sense of connection and meaning in what is up there.
You are thinking that no matter on how many occasions you have experienced this thrill of cinema, now always seems like the first time, that what is familiar is also fresh, that film as a phenomenon itself is being born before your very eyes, and you with it, new to the world, pristine to the ages, when…
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