Are you happy?
The Curzon cinema in Oxford had a rare screening last week of a 1968, black-and white documentary entitled Inquiring Nuns, in which two nuns visited churches, shops, museums and other public places in Chicago and asked people whether they were happy. It was followed by a Skype Q and A with the director, who was very happy at the attention the film was getting fifty years after it was initially released, a state of mind that did not seem to be dampened by the fact that there were only about eleven of us there. ‘What makes you unhappy?’ the nuns asked on the thirty foot screen in front of me and across the span of history I wanted to shout back ‘Two of the eleven people here who are polluting the light with the little tiny screens on their mobile phones and thus not allowing themselves or the people around them to focus fully on what is happening on the huge screen in front of us.’ Why do people do that? Switch off your phones in the cinema people! I might have tweeted about it