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Movie Communion
We rarely go to the movie theater as most offerings are as good (or bad) on the small screen as they are the large.
Occasionally, a movie comes along that must be experienced in a room that shakes your seat with the bass notes (Maverick) or needs to be 3D to be appreciated.
Avatar: The Way of Water is one of those.
We sat in the middle of the theater on the afternoon we decided to enjoy this new Avatar. We watched commercials and previews, and suddenly taking up the entire screen was a message that read, “Please put on your 3D glasses at this time”.
A rustle of plastic, and an entire room of people did as instructed. My spouse laughed and stated, “It’s movie communion”.
Not the kind of communion I grew up with where everyone filed to the front, received a wafer that immediately stuck to the roof of your mouth, then was offered a chalice with the backwash of every member of the congregation as they had sipped from the same vessel. This was the communion my husband had grown up with, where silver trays of single serving communion shot glasses are passed around, then everyone peels off the top and partakes at the same time.
At the end of the movie, we joined the line of people returning their 3D glasses. It was almost reverent in nature. Again, everyone doing the same thing. Together. In a ritualist manner.
We laughed at the herd mentality of it all.
We were not rebels. We returned our glasses along with the crowd. We put them on when instructed.
If you can’t find humor in your own actions, you’re missing the point.
Enjoy the movie!
