Comment on Chaos in the aisles: has cinema etiquette reached an all-time low?

Bye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The author can’t really be implying that in 4 years, many people somehow forgot movie etiquette. Are we really that eager to infantilize people, implying they have the memory of a goldfish? That they have suddenly become ok answering the phone in a quiet theater, and weren’t before?

No, the world has always been full of some fraction of dumb people. If we accept that rudeness is a random variable with some central tendency toward common decency, we must accept that there is a left tail to that distribution, composed of crude jerks.

These people have always been among us. And perhaps in the comfort of our own home theaters, private screening rooms, and bedtime laptop cinema adventures, we forgot about the jerks.

There’s a reason home video became so popular in the post VCR world. There have always been those who talk through films, throw popcorn, and yell at the screen “oh no don’t go in there!” We just forgot about them in those 4 years. They didn’t go anywhere.

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