Samsara

Samsara is a movie shot in 70mm, with no dialogue, just atmospheric music and a bunch of great shots of people and places. It's neato and well worth watching. What I want to talk about, though, is the audience that was at this goddamn thing--I've never seen so much gentle bafflement at the very simple goings-on of the Hollywood Arclight. Basically, when you buy your ticket you pick which seats you want, then you look at the seat numbers on your ticket, and then you walk to those seats. It's pretty straightforward. Unless you're a very stoned, or possibly just very stupid, person with tickets to Samsara, and then what you do is sit in the wrong seat and get really confused when other people ask you to move out of their seats. The situation is exacerbated by the equally stoned or stupid nature of the people asking you to move, as everyone involved compares their tickets and stares really hard at the seat numbers and hunches around from row to row. It is a very entertaining thing to watch as a non-stoned member of the audience. Also, we didn't have to yell at anyone for texting, so I guess what I'm saying is this was the best audience that's ever been in a movie theater.