Originally Posted By: Capo de La Cosa Nostra
That cinemas open on Christmas Day in the US shows the extent of its commercialisation; that people go to the cinema on Christmas Day shows the ordinariness of it, in terms of outdatedness - and I speak for the US, that most capitalistic (and Christian) of countries.

Money talks; as does, in other ways, familial emptiness.


So if it's a family tradition, as TIS said, for families to take their kids to a movie on Christmas day, then it is familial emptiness? Even though the kids might love the tradition and look forward to it, regardless of the commercial motivation behind the theaters? If people enjoy paying money to see a movie on Christmas day then I don't see the problem with people having a good time doing it.

Last edited by Blibbleblabble; 12/13/08 11:23 PM.
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