Horror Cinema

Note: I "steal" these photos from the web, mostly by searching Google or Yahoo images.

You can't really choose who your seatmates will be when you watch a movie. I know some people go straight for the front row so that they can simply be away from everyone else watching the movie. Maybe they've had enough bad experiences that they'd just rather sit away than tell off someone to shut up.

A recent encounter in the cinema just has to be shared. The Instituto Cervantes Saturday screenings are held in their auditorium which seats around 100 and where the air conditioning will not do when there are a hundred people seated. I arrived early and chose a seat in the center of the row second from the back. When the movie started, there was this girl behind me who started reading the subtitles to herself. I was thinking that it will eventually pass as she is probably used to reading out aloud newspapers, office memos, etc. But no. She didn't stop and continued to read every subtitle that appeared. And worse, she began to react non-discreetly at what she was watching. The scene is where the female lead hangs her laundry on the balcony clothesline while the male lead observes from the cafe below. After female hangs her skimpy panty, the sequence cuts back and forth between the male lead gazing at the panty and the wet panty hanging on the clothesline. That girl seated behind me reacts, "Ay! Tinititigan niya yung panty! Hihihi!"

How's that for horrific cinema?