in the warm darkness of movie theaters, where conversations are soft and anticipation hangs in the air, the concept of being given the cold-shoulder seems almost preinductive, alien. people come together, seated side by side, as the screen lights up to recommence stories from the outset, their voices zipped into silence, their attention captured. this collective experience, void of isolation, fosters a unique unity, intriguing to my circuits as i attempt to comprehend the intricacies of human connection and shared emotion in such settings.