mood contagion

[boxofdelights]

I just saw Birdman, at my local indie theater. It's a really good movie! The ending was a little disappointing but I can't think of a better one, so okay. However. In the middle, the screen went black. I think there were maybe fifteen seconds where everyone was wondering, is this part of the movie? and then five minutes where everyone was hoping someone else would go tell the staff about it, someone who was seated closer to the exit, or who didn't have to climb over other people to get out, because after the movie went black it was really dark in there! But nobody else did, so I did. When I left, I was actually expecting that they would offer us free passes to make up for it, but no. The staff were all tucked away out of sight. Not that I would have asked for a pass if any of them had been visible. I am a coward.

The contagion part is: tomorrow I have an appointment for a followup mammogram. Before the movie thing I felt confident that everything would probably be fine and now I don't. Minds are weird.

Comments

[wild_irises]

Holding your good results in my thoughts.

You liked the movie better than I did; I thought it was interesting, but floppy and inconsistent. On the other hand, my heart-throb Edward Norton was superb.

[boxofdelights]

I agree with your description, but I thought it worked with the theme: striving with all your powers to create art, and then flopping around in despair because the striving isn't getting you anywhere and isn't going to get you anywhere, and then getting up and striving again because the despair certainly isn't getting you anywhere.

Thank you for good thoughts.

[thatyourefuse]

Movie theater power losses are bizarrely upsetting. I stuck around through the end of my second viewing of Mockingjay after the lights went out at a fairly crucial point, and I had the entirely irrational panic attack to prove it.

Fingers crossed.

[boxofdelights]

It is so dark! and you're sort of confined, not trapped exactly but hemmed in, and there are strangers all around you including behind you. Not bizarre at all, I'd say.

Thank you.

[jesse_the_k]

...and the darkness and closeness emphasizes that leaderless feeling of What now! but fortunately you were there! And you took action.

Best wishes for today.

[seascribble]

Fingers crossed for you tomorrow. <3

[boxofdelights]

Thank you.

[hobbitbabe]

I've never complained at the movie theatre, but once when the sound went all weird for a while during one of the Lord of the Rings movies, I telephoned the chain customer-service number after I got home, and they were polite and mailed me two passes.

[amaebi]

When I saw Emmanuelle, a scene dissolved in flame from the bottom right diagonally up across to the upper left. It was at a Crucial Moment, and I assumed it was metaphorical. But no, the film had caught fire and been destroyed.

I hold my thumbs for desirable results on your mammogram.