Will You Go to the Movies With Me?
The neighborhood cinema used to be a go-to place for date nights, friend hangouts, and various other outings. Today, though, the public theater has largely been supplanted by the at-home entertainment system. What's more, some American towns have no movie theaters at all. In Commonplace , Jon Bishop writes that the city of Worcester, Massachusetts doesn't have a single movie theater. Some reddit users on the r/WorcesterMA subreddit have corroborated this . On that forum, u/MattOLOLOL, wrote: "As to why we can't sustain a movie theater anymore, I'm not sure. I'd bet the pandemic was a big factor, but still, we're a city of over 200k." Another user commented: "I think people just don't go out to the movies anymore." Whatever the case, this is profoundly sad. The movie theater, as documented in Giuseppe Tornatore's magnum opus, Cinema Paradiso , is an integral part of community life. Without it, we are relegated to our bedrooms to p...
