Should the mentally disabled go to the cinema
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with everyone else?
Here is another chance for the professionally offended to get on their high horses, for people to misread, to quote the bits they don't like and ignore the more empathic side I have tried to show.
It's a difficult one I know, but we went to the cinema the other night to watch First Man (on the moon) with a couple of these guys in the audience. One honked like a Canada goose now and again (mainly throughout the quiet tense scenes) and the other blew raspberries constantly throughout with the regularity of a grasshopper.
On the one hand they (and their presumed parents) should be able to do what everyone else can, although I'm not sure how much of the film they watched or understood. But then they spoiled it for me and everyone else there.
If someone else talked or made loud noises all the way through you'd be well within your rights to ask them to stop or get someone else to have a word, but you couldn't really do that here!
I feel we should have maybe been warned in advance and that the parents and the cinema should have got together to sort them out with a private viewing or something, what say you?
Here is another chance for the professionally offended to get on their high horses, for people to misread, to quote the bits they don't like and ignore the more empathic side I have tried to show.
It's a difficult one I know, but we went to the cinema the other night to watch First Man (on the moon) with a couple of these guys in the audience. One honked like a Canada goose now and again (mainly throughout the quiet tense scenes) and the other blew raspberries constantly throughout with the regularity of a grasshopper.
On the one hand they (and their presumed parents) should be able to do what everyone else can, although I'm not sure how much of the film they watched or understood. But then they spoiled it for me and everyone else there.
If someone else talked or made loud noises all the way through you'd be well within your rights to ask them to stop or get someone else to have a word, but you couldn't really do that here!
I feel we should have maybe been warned in advance and that the parents and the cinema should have got together to sort them out with a private viewing or something, what say you?
Edited by 227bhp on Monday 22 October 09:05
I would bet it was the parents who wanted to watch the film but can’t get properly qualified people to “babysit” their children.
They are left with very little choice in a situation like that.What would you do,try to carry on with some kind of life or sit at home never going out because your children may behave differentley than other kids?
They are left with very little choice in a situation like that.What would you do,try to carry on with some kind of life or sit at home never going out because your children may behave differentley than other kids?
Wacky Racer said:
Difficult one.
I would have certainly asked for a refund of the ticket price.
You seriously think the cinema should have (theoretically) refunded you because some disabled people showed up to watch a film?I would have certainly asked for a refund of the ticket price.
That’s astonishing. What do you think the cinema should have done??
Just to clarify:-
As has been mentioned, it's possible that the "carers" or parents had no option but to take these two "mentally disabled" people with them, so I'm certainly not suggesting they should not have been allowed in.
On the other hand the OP's "quiet enjoyment" of the film was spoilt, so I don't think it's unreasonable to request a refund or maybe some free tickets for another performance.
As has been mentioned, it's possible that the "carers" or parents had no option but to take these two "mentally disabled" people with them, so I'm certainly not suggesting they should not have been allowed in.
On the other hand the OP's "quiet enjoyment" of the film was spoilt, so I don't think it's unreasonable to request a refund or maybe some free tickets for another performance.
Wacky Racer said:
On the other hand the OP's "quiet enjoyment" of the film was spoilt, so I don't think it's unreasonable to request a refund or maybe some free tickets for another performance.
The suggestion of a refund or compensation with free tickets means that you think the cinema has done something wrongSo, how was it their fault and what do you think the cinema could have done to prevent this?
I don't think 'quiet enjoyment' of a film is part of your contract with the cinema.
There was a time when my enjoyment of films was ruined by people blowing cigarette smoke down the back of my neck. Today, rattling of sweet packets and the stink of popcorn serves that purpose. And mobile phones, of course.
For this reason I don't go to the cinema anymore, apart from a few visits with my grandchildren, who are much more tolerant about public behaviour. If you go to the cinema then you have to accept it is a public place and the public consists of a lot of different kinds of people, many of whom do things that can get on your wick.
My wife can tolerate this kind of thing well enough, so she enjoys the cinema. I find it distracting, so I don't go. My choice. If you can't cope, then simply stay at home.
There was a time when my enjoyment of films was ruined by people blowing cigarette smoke down the back of my neck. Today, rattling of sweet packets and the stink of popcorn serves that purpose. And mobile phones, of course.
For this reason I don't go to the cinema anymore, apart from a few visits with my grandchildren, who are much more tolerant about public behaviour. If you go to the cinema then you have to accept it is a public place and the public consists of a lot of different kinds of people, many of whom do things that can get on your wick.
My wife can tolerate this kind of thing well enough, so she enjoys the cinema. I find it distracting, so I don't go. My choice. If you can't cope, then simply stay at home.
Down to the parents/carers to be honest, they knew full well what the two lads would do and knew nobody would challenge them because they would have the supposed moral high ground and would have pc do-gooders to back them up should such an incident occur.
Cinemas hands are tied as it would cause a public relations nightmare if they banned the disabled from their premises I can just imagine the compoface photos the family would have published in the paper, no not good either way.
Cinemas hands are tied as it would cause a public relations nightmare if they banned the disabled from their premises I can just imagine the compoface photos the family would have published in the paper, no not good either way.
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