i reserved my ticket for this and thelma 3 days in advance, at a strange time in an unpopular theater.. hoping that nobody would be in there with me for either of them. i was delighted as i checked my phone in the morning and saw that nobody else had bought tickets yet. when i got to the theater, i see no more than 15 cars in the parking lot. everything seemed perfect. i got all the way thru ghostlight, my first of the day, completely alone. exactly as planned and desired. as the credits start to roll, i check to see if i had any unwanted guests coming to see thelma with me. at first when i did my quick scan, i thought it was going to be empty.. but no. there was one seat taken. the seat directly next to me. like, in the dual recliner next to me. immediately i was in shock and disbelief, quickly refreshed the page a few times but no, someone actually bought a ticket for that seat. 25 minutes later, and about 4 minutes away from it being time for the trailers to be wrapping up before thelma, i’m sitting in my car.. opening up waze on the verge of just driving home instead of confronting the situation waiting for me in that theater, which is what i would of done had i not watched this movie. but thankfully i changed up from my usual habits, and faced my severe unease about the situation and went into the theater. i did end up plopping into the recliner adjacent to the one he sat in, but i started a conversation with him and we ended up laughing along together for most of the runtime. right away it was clear to me that he needed an interaction like this and honestly i think i did too.
for a movie to have effected me on a level that leads me to immediately break through a barrier i have built up for myself, it had to have done something right
while coming off a little ham-fisted at times, to me this was still a perfectly written and put together story. the pacing was genuinely so impressive and balanced. there were so many actions done by characters in this that taught you something about them, and then there was subtle reasoning for every single one of those actions seeded throughout the entire script. it all worked and was reasonable in the moment, and then MUCH MORE reasonable later when things all were laid out for the viewer. it’s so rare to come across something that justifies every single scene at the time that it happens, let alone coming back to every one of them later and building upon it.
i had no real idea what the actual content of this was going to have based on the pretty vague description, and i’ll be forever thankful for that. it ended up being an extremely emotional experience for me, and gave me the most clear view possible into what me and my families lives most likely would of ended up looking like had some certain events gone differently in the past.
this had me smiling and laughing thru the tears which is all you can really ask for. the cast felt a bit amateur, and looking thru the history of the people in this it kind of was. BUT. it worked heavily in the favor of what this movie was going for, especially for all of the characters in the community theater group. it was beautiful to see a REAL LIFE FAMILY PLAYING THE FAMILY IN THIS !!! super cool
and also that scene with the shadow near the end was extremely powerful, i feel like that and a couple other things were amplified by being alone at the theater for this 😅 which kinda goes against what i learned from my thelma experience BUT i truly feel like it was meant to be this way.
❤️❤️❤️
i reserved my ticket for this and thelma 3 days in advance, at a strange time in an unpopular theater.. hoping that nobody would be in there with me for either of them. i was delighted as i checked my phone in the morning and saw that nobody else had bought tickets yet. when i got to the theater, i see no more than 15 cars in the parking lot. everything seemed perfect. i got all the way thru ghostlight, my first of the day, completely alone. exactly as planned and desired. as the credits start to roll, i check to see if i had any unwanted guests coming to see thelma with me. at first when i did my quick scan, i thought it was going to be empty.. but no. there was one seat taken. the seat directly next to me. like, in the dual recliner next to me. immediately i was in shock and disbelief, quickly refreshed the page a few times but no, someone actually bought a ticket for that seat. 25 minutes later, and about 4 minutes away from it being time for the trailers to be wrapping up before thelma, i’m sitting in my car.. opening up waze on the verge of just driving home instead of confronting the situation waiting for me in that theater, which is what i would of done had i not watched this movie. but thankfully i changed up from my usual habits, and faced my severe unease about the situation and went into the theater. i did end up plopping into the recliner adjacent to the one he sat in, but i started a conversation with him and we ended up laughing along together for most of the runtime. right away it was clear to me that he needed an interaction like this and honestly i think i did too.
for a movie to have effected me on a level that leads me to immediately break through a barrier i have built up for myself, it had to have done something right
while coming off a little ham-fisted at times, to me this was still a perfectly written and put together story. the pacing was genuinely so impressive and balanced. there were so many actions done by characters in this that taught you something about them, and then there was subtle reasoning for every single one of those actions seeded throughout the entire script. it all worked and was reasonable in the moment, and then MUCH MORE reasonable later when things all were laid out for the viewer. it’s so rare to come across something that justifies every single scene at the time that it happens, let alone coming back to every one of them later and building upon it.
i had no real idea what the actual content of this was going to have based on the pretty vague description, and i’ll be forever thankful for that. it ended up being an extremely emotional experience for me, and gave me the most clear view possible into what me and my families lives most likely would of ended up looking like had some certain events gone differently in the past.
this had me smiling and laughing thru the tears which is all you can really ask for. the cast felt a bit amateur, and looking thru the history of the people in this it kind of was. BUT. it worked heavily in the favor of what this movie was going for, especially for all of the characters in the community theater group. it was beautiful to see a REAL LIFE FAMILY PLAYING THE FAMILY IN THIS !!! super cool
and also that scene with the shadow near the end was extremely powerful, i feel like that and a couple other things were amplified by being alone at the theater for this 😅 which kinda goes against what i learned from my thelma experience BUT i truly feel like it was meant to be this way.
❤️❤️❤️
