Visiting a cinema for the first time in four years brought on a startling high for Amelia Lester. | OPINION
Yesterday I did something I haven’t done in a long time – something that, until recently, felt unthinkable and which many people might still quite reasonably baulk at: I went to the movies. It had been almost four years, so it’s not just the pandemic that kept me away. There’s the expense of it all. And the shortage of movies grown-ups might wish to see that do not involve comic-book characters has played a part, too.
The funny thing about movies these days is that everyone sees the same one. Grabbing a bite to eat beforehand, a waiter correctly guessed which one we were going to. He’d seen it the previous weekend; his mother, a few days before that. “Now she’s trying to get me to become a navy pilot,” he said with affectionate exasperation.It would be impossible not to enjoy what followed, which was two-plus hours of camp cheer and absurd suspense for a target audience of absolutely everyone in the world.
It is probably not New Zealand. There is a diverse cadre of young hotshots vying for the chance to fly alongside a man we’ve all chosen to forget used Oprah’s couch as a very weird trampoline. And Jennifer Connelly is an age-appropriate love interest, a bartender armed with some ice-cold beer and a portfolio of winsome looks to advance the minimal plotline.
It was a high that makes you do crazy things, like talk to your neighbours on returning home. When I joyfully announced to mine where I’d been, she was incredulous. “You can still do that?” she asked.My partner and I had been the only people in a giant movie theatre, which was both a relief and a little spooky. Ease is paramount in all things now, even entertainment, and with babysitting money to think of, I can certainly relate.
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