Thursday, November 28, 2024
Why cinemas should open their doors as ‘warm spaces’ this winter
theconversation.com: In England, rising concerns around escalating costs of living during last winter prompted the development of local initiatives aimed at creating “warm spaces”. The idea was to provide a warm environment, often with the addition of a hot drink, internet access and support services, to assist those affected by increased financial pressures.
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I hadn’t heard of these warm spaces but I think that they can teach us an important lesson of compassion. Everyone deserves to have a space to go to warm up and receive care that helps them survive the harsh winter. For cinemas to join this crusade against cold is an amazing idea in theory but I doubt it would happen in reality. Cinemas are very monetary businesses and are unlikely to open their doors to those who may need shelter from the weather. I think that if people can forget their greed and look after one another then we can become a more advanced civilization. Many people struggle with the uncertainty of shelter and in the winter this can cause hypothermia and even death; some people forget that those around us are human too each with their own challenges and strengths. If we look after others we can have more hope that when we are in need others will be there for us.
I think warm spaces are a nice idea but when they talked about the use of a cinema to do that I didn’t quite understand how the cinema would be transformed into a warm space differently than just being used in a movie theatre with maybe more affordable prices. This article is in the context of executing this in Europe so maybe it’s different, but in America I don’t think hyping a cinema theatre as a warm place provides anything above what it already does. Like the article says, seeing a movie with others builds a social connection in a time of it being cold or financially hard–but in America people usually like to remain quiet, sit apart from strangers, and you still have to pay exorbitant prices to sit there in the first place. If movie theatres were just going to be open for people to sit in and use the wifi and order a hot drink or something that would make sense, but that’s not what would happen at least in corporate America.
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