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Film night just won't die!

I Sperg

I've read an awful lot of posts on this forum about how "socially isolated" people are.

People complain that they"see no-one" and that "it's difficult to go out" and these are problems I faced and largely overcame when I was a young I Sperg.

Part of what did me good was a film night hosted in a shared house by a guy by the name of Chris Beckett, (who's no longer with us) and who like me had all the social magnetism of a muddy puddle, but fairly decent taste in films. (until democracy intervened, and the fayre changed to more mainstream stuff, which I can find full of nasty evil acts and challenging to watch) 

As an (at the time undiagnosed) Autist I liked the semi informed silence that watching a film imposes. I also liked the fact that when conversation returned it tended to be about the film we had all just watched, and therefore although there were multiple people, I had a much better chance if engaging successfully, until the conversation got more neurotypical. and fo course over time friendships formed (or existed already) and film night at Chris Becketts worked for me for a long time..

SO I figured maybe I could provide such a service here, but where people didn't even have to go out of their house, or show their face or even speak! 

Every Sunday Evening at 8:00pm unsharp I've streamed a film, since just after Christmas, and apart from one person, once, no-one from here showed up! 

I can understand why some of you might not like the idea, but all of you?

I'm less miffed about it's "failure" than I might be because a couple of personal friends have showed up each week, one who I asked to help me be reliable and one who just likes a film, but I am bloody curious as to why it's been no good for any of you! Especially as there was quite a lot of positive chat at the beginning...

Film night continues, but we are taking a dark post apocalyptic turn right now. Probably going to show either "Threads" or "bridesmaids" this week...

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  • 8pm is too late for me to start watching a film, that's all, it's nothing personal. Although I also don't generally prefer dark films, especially before bed.

    If you did pick one I wanted to see at a time I could attend then I would find it more useful if the zoom link was included in the post about it rather than having to hunt down some original post, my executive function issues and demand avoidance would find that problematic.

    As an aside, I don't know if it has affected you yet but when I last zoomed with my Dad they have introduced a really annoying new way to try and get people to pay for it, so now when they chuck you off after 40 mins you have to wait ten mins before you can restart it! It might not affect you yet, they seem to take their time rolling out things like that, but it could be a problem for you so i thought I'd give you a heads up.

  • in reply to AuTriker

    Hi Yes, I seem to remember during my many lockdown Zoom meetings being kicked off after 40 minutes. I watch a lot of movies both at the cinema and on Netflix, and I'm the same, I tend to avoid too dark (or dismal) movies, preferring more uplifting ones. 

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