Oct. 18 2008: Notes from Cinemanila
Hmmm... I was supposed to watch a film with my friend here at Gateway but unfortunately, the universe conspired against me and made him unavailable at that hour so... I'm alone. Incidentally, the film I was going to watch was Evangelion 1.0: You are (not) alone. How ironic. Actually I have seen this before on my pc (thanks to the torrent leviathan, piratebay) but the experience of watching a film on a theater (and sharing that experience with other moviegoers) is always different so I went.
I arrived an hour and a half before the screening because I arrived early (I had alloted two hours travel time as I didn't actually know where in cubao is gateway, but it was just around the block) and I have this insane compulsion of arriving at least an hour before my... uhmm... engagements, well, at least those that matter for me. Ironically, I hate waiting. So I waited... And waited...
Standing around and doing nothing always makes me observe the most interesting subjects on earth: humans. I noted the following things:
- People's dependence on cell phones had escalated to the point that gone were the timeswhere you talk to someone on the phone, set a specific time and place to meet and expect the person you would meet at the said place at the exact time. Nowadays you would have to contact the person continuously on the matter of his/her whereabouts, especially those with morning sickness and those with a severe case of indecisiveness. It's sad. But I would like to stress this fact: I am not saying that majority of people have a habit of being late (or not coming at all), it's just that there are people like this.
- Likewise, people had become addicted to personal music devices and they will walk around with earphones (or worse, headphones) jammed into their ears, bumping into people and not hearing car horns until it is too late. Haha, I just realized, I am one of these people. I use it to shut the world out. What's your reason? n_n
- If you stare at people from above (as I did from the 4th floor of Gateway) then you would realize that all these people walking around in circles below you look like ants. I imagine God, looking at us from heaven laughing at how miserable and futile our lives are and eventually stepping on us, to smite our pitiful lives. Haha. Now I'm the cynic.
Ooops, I have to wrap this up, as I also have this insane compulsion to be inside the theater 20 minutes before the show starts.
I arrived an hour and a half before the screening because I arrived early (I had alloted two hours travel time as I didn't actually know where in cubao is gateway, but it was just around the block) and I have this insane compulsion of arriving at least an hour before my... uhmm... engagements, well, at least those that matter for me. Ironically, I hate waiting. So I waited... And waited...
Standing around and doing nothing always makes me observe the most interesting subjects on earth: humans. I noted the following things:
- People's dependence on cell phones had escalated to the point that gone were the timeswhere you talk to someone on the phone, set a specific time and place to meet and expect the person you would meet at the said place at the exact time. Nowadays you would have to contact the person continuously on the matter of his/her whereabouts, especially those with morning sickness and those with a severe case of indecisiveness. It's sad. But I would like to stress this fact: I am not saying that majority of people have a habit of being late (or not coming at all), it's just that there are people like this.
- Likewise, people had become addicted to personal music devices and they will walk around with earphones (or worse, headphones) jammed into their ears, bumping into people and not hearing car horns until it is too late. Haha, I just realized, I am one of these people. I use it to shut the world out. What's your reason? n_n
- If you stare at people from above (as I did from the 4th floor of Gateway) then you would realize that all these people walking around in circles below you look like ants. I imagine God, looking at us from heaven laughing at how miserable and futile our lives are and eventually stepping on us, to smite our pitiful lives. Haha. Now I'm the cynic.
Ooops, I have to wrap this up, as I also have this insane compulsion to be inside the theater 20 minutes before the show starts.
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