A Social Evening
I was lucky enough to get my hands on a pass to go see a screening of Borat tonight (trailer | Official Site). It was an extremely funny movie, but if you’re easily offended, then it won’t be for you once it comes out in a couple of weeks (but I still recommend it).
Anyhow, this isn’t a movie review. What I found totally interesting is how, after the movie, everyone was talking about it for an extended period of time outside of the movie theater, which was Cinema Guzzo Marche Central. Now, there’s nothing particularly unusual about people yakking about a film once it’s over, but it just seemed that even strangers were talking to each other, citing quotes and reenacting scenes from the flick. My friend and I ended up walking to the bus stop with a few people the we didn’t know (and a few that my friend happened to know - small world) and talked about it non stop while waiting. Once on the bus there were a bunch of other people that clearly didn’t know each other talking about it and a couple of them joined into the group conversation. It was all very strange, yet intriguing how people would just start chatting to one another, I couldn’t help but mostly stay quiet and observe the phenomena, even the people on the opposite side of the Metro car that seemed to not be able to talk about anything else but the movie. Our conversation did eventually move on to other topics once on the Metro and we also eventually parted ways.
I had a good time tonight, even considering the rain in which we had to walk through to and from the theater (not having a car sucks, sometimes).
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Nice story. It’s neat when those kind of things happen. Also a compliment to the director of the movie for being able to elicit such a reaction.