The Velvet Café  A room for thoughts about movies  Out of
control – What the audience can add to a movie  with 10 comments
Performing arts have an aspect that film lack. Or at least
that’s how we usually see it.  Everyone present in the theatre
knows that this play, this concert, this dancing performance,
will only be executed exactly this way once in history. Tomorrow
is another day, with a different audience and a different mood
that will change it.  The show carries a flavour of uniqueness
and the nerve of unpredictability. Anything could happen.  We
normally don’t think of movies in those terms. Once the final
cut is approved, once the copies are out for distribution, it’s
repetition. Everyone, regardless of when or where you watch it,
will get the same experience.  But on a second thought I think
it’s not the entire truth. There is certain randomness about
movies too, as long as you watch them in a cinema rather than in
your home home.   There is an unpredictable factor, with the
potential to make any m