Roland Barthes wrote the feeling about leaving the movie theater at the beginning. The kind of laziness, sleepiness as the aftermath of watching a movie, which is quite similar to being hypnotized.
Before the movie starts, we are already attracted by the posters, trailers. Especially on a Sunday afternoon, vacancy drives us desire being filled.
In the cinema, the dark, cozy, unfamiliar atmosphere helps the hypnosis work. Set us in an immovable but mind free situation, like sleeping on the bed.Made us like silence observers in the play on screen. Immerse ourselves in the artificial dream called movie, forget about the reality. Stick our mind on a little mirror on the wall (screen).
So, for the writer, go to the movie not only about watching the film but also include the experience of going through the corridors, the darkness of theater. Those feelings are different from watching at home.
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To Barthes, going to the cinema is an effort to fill in a void of activity. He found a healing effect on it as well. What does going to the cinema mean to you? Taking into account the immersive cinematic experience Barthes describes, do you think there are any other places that have a similar effect on people (or on you)? You described being in a cinema just like being in a lucid dream. Is this how you would imagine when you are being hypnotised? Because Barthes also illustrates his experience is a more-or-less similar way in p.349: “… as id I had two bodies at the same time: a narcissistic body, … and a perverse body, …”