Jonathan Goldstein

And I think that's a little bit the way that I feel about movie theaters.

Yeah.

And there's one particular, I live in Minnesota, Minneapolis, and there's an old mid-century theater.

theater that uh used to be walking distance from my house and i would just go see anything that was playing there and always sit way way way back in the back row because i like to take it all in um by yourself by myself yeah it had i'd like going there with people but i you know if i had my druthers it was by myself and that just felt um like my place in the dark looking up at this big screen and

Feeling like a baby being held by somebody, you know?

Maybe that's a part of it.

I don't know.

I think this particular theater, because it's mid-century, I had the experience last Christmas of going to see It's a Wonderful Life there.

And I found it to be a very emotional experience.

Like it's just, I mean, it's just a room.

But it, I don't know, all of this stuff sounds very corny.

I mean, my father used to watch these black and white movies and refer to it as like a time machine.

And it is corny.

Kind of like that.

There is this feeling of the past kind of erasing and you're kind of existing in all times at once.

Beyond that, it's probably just pretty banal.

It just, yeah, there's just something extraordinary about in this day and age being able to kind of like turn your phone off and shut out the world for a couple of hours.

Is it my voice?

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