The author’s impeccable description of the theater environment and movie-going experience made me rethink my experience. I had two completely different feeling when watching a movie in a cinema and at home on my laptop.
When I watch a movie at home, I can’t help but look at my phone from time to time, or I am easily distracted by the actions of people around me, which makes it difficult to focus on the movie. I often use the playback function of the video player. However, I could hardly be disturbed when watching a movie in the theater; my eyes captured every film frame.
After reading this article, I realized that hypnosis during movie watching is a unique experience that can only be experienced in a carefully designed environment. The darkness of the theatre and the large screen size draw all my attention to the movie itself, even making me forget reality.
I will go to the cinema more often in the future to immerse myself more in film.
Name: LI Jiatong
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I appreciate your personal reflection on theater and film watching, as well as your own experience that vividly demonstrates the hypnosis brought by theater. I would suggest you dig your reflection deeper based on the title “Leaving the Movie Theater”, especially the term “leave.” Also, I am looking forward to hearing more about how and why you situate yourselves and dispose the situation of “two bodies” during watching films in the theater. Keeping rational, fully falling into the cinematic ideological world or other ways?