FILMS DURING THE PANDEMIC
While it's obvious that the Pandemic has influenced so many aspects of life, let's add one other element that's not so obvious: watching film. True, seeing movies, primarily in our living rooms, is more intimate, it is often disorientating and disconcerting as well. We are looking forward to the post Pandemic time when, as Frances Mcdormand said in her April Oscar acceptance speech, we can "gather everyone we know, go to the movie theatre, and watch all the motion picture that were nominated this past year." Ms. Mcdormand has a good point, of course. But we also shouldn't overlook the positive factors of film viewing during the Pandemic, where formats like streaming and tv scripted series were being profusely offered. Looking forward to stories broadcast on a regular, lengthy bases, around the clock, gave us a daily routine far from thinking about Covid 19 's inherent dangers. Wasn't it better pondering what would happen to the characte