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I went to see "The Imitation Game".
Jan. 3rd, 2015 08:42 amMy New Year's Eve involved going to bed early. But during the day I did two things I don't usually do, I got a burger at my favorite place and then went to watch "The Imitation Game", by myself.
I had considered a few of the people I could ask to go with me but I wanted to go that day and not be swayed into putting it off or just giving up due to the lack of enthusiasm and spontaneity of others. So much to my amusement, there were more "singles" there than I had ever seen at a theatre before. Single seating does tend to make the audience look bigger at first. Every one sits in the middle row, in the middle, and with at least two seats (one being an empty seat buffer) to every person it spreads out quickly. After that, the gaps start to fill in as, you guessed it, singles have to bunch together to allow seating for couples and triples...The other difference I saw in this audience was how many white haired people there were, so many that anyone without white hair stood out.
Perhaps all the young people were getting dressed up for a New Years Eve bash?
The Imitation Game is about code breaking in the WWII but really about Alan Turing. It is one of the most tragic stories about a genius that I know. Given that some tweaking of the chronology was done, and with a few emphasis adjustments,it pretty much illustrates how amazing it is that our species survives given that we are so often offended by the irrelevant and yet thrilled about violence, whether it is the bureaucratically sanctioned kind or just your usual bloody thugism. Is Thugism not a word? Weird, it is so prevalent.
It's a really good movie. You should see it. There's even a joke in the middle.
I had considered a few of the people I could ask to go with me but I wanted to go that day and not be swayed into putting it off or just giving up due to the lack of enthusiasm and spontaneity of others. So much to my amusement, there were more "singles" there than I had ever seen at a theatre before. Single seating does tend to make the audience look bigger at first. Every one sits in the middle row, in the middle, and with at least two seats (one being an empty seat buffer) to every person it spreads out quickly. After that, the gaps start to fill in as, you guessed it, singles have to bunch together to allow seating for couples and triples...The other difference I saw in this audience was how many white haired people there were, so many that anyone without white hair stood out.
Perhaps all the young people were getting dressed up for a New Years Eve bash?
The Imitation Game is about code breaking in the WWII but really about Alan Turing. It is one of the most tragic stories about a genius that I know. Given that some tweaking of the chronology was done, and with a few emphasis adjustments,it pretty much illustrates how amazing it is that our species survives given that we are so often offended by the irrelevant and yet thrilled about violence, whether it is the bureaucratically sanctioned kind or just your usual bloody thugism. Is Thugism not a word? Weird, it is so prevalent.
It's a really good movie. You should see it. There's even a joke in the middle.
