the lives of others and people who talk in movies...
The Lives of Others is the best movie I've seen in the theatres this year. It's brilliant, flawless. It's a tight story, complete. Set in Eastern Germany before the wall came down, the film shows how fear, power, lust and art, cross, collide, and destroy. Art trumps bureaucracy, but just barely.
The film was so good, that the woman in the big hat who set several rows behind me and talked for much of the film was at first easy to ignore. I thought her muttering must be the soundtrack from the next door screen, at first, as only an idiot would talk during such a fine film.
But talk she did.
We moved down several rows, creating more distance between her voice and us.
She talked louder.
I could take it no more...
I approached her and said, "Please, please please stop talking. Please!"
Her response: "Oh, am I talking too loudly?"
Me: "Uh, yes."
Clearly idiots do occasionally stumble into good movies.
Back at my seat, I settled in and the woman did shut up for about half an hour, then she was a little quieter, but not much.
The theatre even gave us free passes for another movie as other people complained, too... I need to remember to bring my "Please don't talk in the movie" buttons with me next time.
This is the first time I've ever actually gone up to someone in a theatre rather than just shushing at them. Maybe it's because I've seen too many people walking around in stores talking on their cell phone, bumping their buggies into people, or standing at counters talking on their phone, or driving into my lane while they are on their damn cell phone. It probably didn't do any good, Big Hat Lady is probably a chronic movie talker, but if you see a tiny woman in a big hat, at the Regal Arbor, it might be Big Hat Lady.
The film was so good, that the woman in the big hat who set several rows behind me and talked for much of the film was at first easy to ignore. I thought her muttering must be the soundtrack from the next door screen, at first, as only an idiot would talk during such a fine film.
But talk she did.
We moved down several rows, creating more distance between her voice and us.
She talked louder.
I could take it no more...
I approached her and said, "Please, please please stop talking. Please!"
Her response: "Oh, am I talking too loudly?"
Me: "Uh, yes."
Clearly idiots do occasionally stumble into good movies.
Back at my seat, I settled in and the woman did shut up for about half an hour, then she was a little quieter, but not much.
The theatre even gave us free passes for another movie as other people complained, too... I need to remember to bring my "Please don't talk in the movie" buttons with me next time.
This is the first time I've ever actually gone up to someone in a theatre rather than just shushing at them. Maybe it's because I've seen too many people walking around in stores talking on their cell phone, bumping their buggies into people, or standing at counters talking on their phone, or driving into my lane while they are on their damn cell phone. It probably didn't do any good, Big Hat Lady is probably a chronic movie talker, but if you see a tiny woman in a big hat, at the Regal Arbor, it might be Big Hat Lady.
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3 Comments:
This morning I was that close to shouting down the aisle at my fellow standing bus riders: "I'm sorry it's inconvenient, but could you move the hell back so these people can also get on the bus?"
The only thing that stopped me was that just before I was ready to, a nice young woman got up and offered her seat to the frail Chinese aunty that everyone else had ignored.
Sometimes people need to be reminded of their better nature, I think.
Please, please please stop talking. Please!
Now THATS polite!
If time permits i will bounce on over to the theatre. Look for the woman in the big hat. Sit on the opposite side of the theatre, and watch The Lives of Others... this weekend...
on your recomendation
Very good movie.
So hard to believe that was less than 20 yrs ago.
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