Lately, I’ve been thinking about how much I miss movie theaters.
I don’t just mean that I miss watching eye-zapping sensory-overload spectacles on the big screen.
I don’t just mean that I miss watching vibrant life-size dramas that, by virtue of being on the big screen, become a kind of spectacle, one that’s larger-than-life in its intimacy.I mean that I miss the experience of going out to a movie, of giving yourself over to it, of getting lost in it, of being taken away from this world.
Warning: Don’t try this at home.
Or, at least, not if you want it to work as well as it does in the cavernous dark.Everything is relative, and in the moment we’re all caught inside now, a trip to the grocery store can suddenly seem as exciting as “Star Wars.” Who doesn’t, these days,
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