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Being made to sit in a room with strangers is very healthy, because that’s what cinema is.
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The quote calls cinema “healthy” because it places people together with strangers in a shared room. Watching a film is therefore more than a private activity: it creates a temporary common experience among people who do not know one another. The wording presents this enforced togetherness as beneficial, even though the audience arrives as separate individuals.
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