Amir
It's easy to complain about issues. All I see are people complaining here about just about anything they can think of, but no one doing anything about it. Class doesn't make a difference between 'home theaters' versus the typical theater. Either way you're spending money, and a lot of it. Do you know how expensive it is to buy a DVD? It costs way more than it would to see the movie in a theater. You might suggest renting one, but that comes out close to a ticket; and thats without factoring in the cost of purchasing your 'home theater'.
The people that come up with these 'issues' and discuss them are so detached from the reality of living life with low income, myself included. It's just another way to fool our new generation of 'thinkers' that they're doing something productive. Class doesn't determine whether or not you go to see movies in theaters or your house. It's personal preference. What these 'thinkers' don't seem to realize is that while they might not be able to fathom any sort of way to get around throwing money at anything they have a whim or fancy for, people deal with their situation, and it is possible to watch movies with a low income.
While 'thinkers' debate the social effects of a failing economy, the people feeling its effects the most are coming up with ways to make their short existence on this earth as enjoyable as possible. Sure, certain luxuries are sacrificed, but nothing really changes. They go to movies and enjoy the same gory, sex-infused action/adventure flick that everyone else does. What we do is waste our money needlessly for certain luxuries that we couldn't live without.
Has anyone ever considered how cheap a matinee movie is? Go to the movies before 6 and you're only dropping down $5-6 in most cases. Thats almost half of what a normal ticket costs at the expense of going a few hours earlier. What? Nothing else to do later in the evening? Go to bed earlier, stop waking up at noon.
We can sit here and think and discuss how class affects a movie-going experience, or we can realize it doesn't and move on. If people want to watch movies in theaters, they will find a way. It just comes down to preference.
1 comment:
I like how bluntly you put it.. and I think you're right to a good extent.. Movies, TV, or w/e, they're all in the business of making money and people may complain that movies and television don't represent a certain group as good as they should but the movies and TV don't care.. they want to make money,that's what they're supposed to do, and they will record any situation that attracts an audience..
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