Talking during the movie, letting a cell phone ring or standing up and blocking the screen are just some of the annoying things people do at the movies. But one man’s distracting behavior has caused a stir online.
Reddit user u/ItsDomorOm noticed a bright light coming from the other side of the theater during a screening of the Hugh Grant thriller on November 7 Heretic. At first he thought it was an exit light that was too bright, but told him Newsweek he “thought it was a joke” when he realized what the source was.
On the way out, the Redditor, from New York, took a photo shows a man on his laptop, which explains the bright light.
“There were assigned seats and I was sitting in the back left corner. That’s when I saw some kind of glow coming from the other side of the room,” the Reddit user said.
“A group of six guys sat in front of me right before the movie started and kept talking. I didn’t feel like telling them to stop, so I walked to the other corner and then I realized the light was a person on their screen was. laptop, I’ve never seen anything like it. We’ve all seen people playing on their phones, but never on a laptop,” he said.
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As if that wasn’t bad enough, u/ItsDomorOm said that the person seemed to shift a lot in their seat, which meant that the light from the laptop kept moving around throughout the movie.
u/ItsDomorOm, the only person in the back row of the half-full theater, said, “As the movie ended and the credits rolled, I turned around and saw that the person was still on the laptop, even though the theater was almost full. empty. I just had to take a picture because it was so ridiculous.
The Redditor didn’t complain to the cinema’s staff, as it was the last showing of the night and the movie was over.
Nevertheless, he shared the photo on Reddit because it was “such a weird thing to do.” The post went viral, receiving more than 96,000 votes and 5,000 comments since it was shared on November 8. He is surprised by the online reactions to the photo and tells Newsweek that he never imagined it would collect millions of views in just a few days.
He added: “The reaction was mostly people making funny comments, and a lot of people being so concerned about people not being able to behave in public.”
One comment read: “work-life not balanced.”
Another Reddit user wrote: “I swear cinema etiquette has hit rock bottom since the corona crisis. Why would anyone think this is a good idea?
A third replied: “I don’t understand why anyone would pay for a ticket and then do this.”
And one user said: “half the time you go to the movies the experience is ruined by ignorant, selfish assholes who think they are the center of the universe. People really don’t know how to act.”
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