So with the enroachment of CCTV and overall obsession with security upon our lives becomes ever more apparent along with the further erosion of civil liberties. If your desire was ever to be part of the celluloid dream…now is your chance.
Just take a trip down to your local Odeon and quicker than you can say “Big Brother and 1984″, hey presto, you’re on film. Odeon and Vue are fitting CCTV cameras in 10 of their cinemas based on “customer and staff safety”…
The footage will be kept for 31 days, so if anyone is enjoying a fumble a la kissing in the back row on Saturday night will be on candid camera. This could either put people off going to the cinema or it could bring out the rampant extrovert..making sure the camera gets the good side. And who knows, the exploits of the moviegoers may even be more entertaining than the film.
And indeed, some budding voyeuristic Cecil B. DeMented who gets access to the CCTV film won’t be cutting and splicing with the end results on YouTube, will they? You can can just see the award ceremonies….”best dramatic snoring”, “best dash to the loos before the films start”, “best fumbling and mumbling” and so on……
But as Liberty says, “Cameras in cinemas are meant to entertain, not turn film-buffs into suspects”… Them watching us watching the film….how mundane. But I still want to know why do they feel the need to impose this level of security on moviegoers? Are they after the film pirates?
I’m off to watch The Dark Knight film tomorrow. I wonder if I’ll feature on silver screen….? At over two hours, gawd knows how people will pass the time with this epic…I intend to watch the film.
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