Category: Let's talk
Would you tolerate this. Iternity's post on Apocolipto jolted my memory.
My mate Damien went to see Pan's Labyrinth a fantasy film set during the Spanish civil war. His enjoyment of the film was ruined by a group of mentally disabled people running about screaming making other assorted noises at full volume and generally losing the heid.
Damien complained and demanded his money back, {he's is not someone you would argue with}.Would you put up with that? And do you think it's fair, that these people are allowed into cinemas and theatres ect, when they have no idea of what is going on or how to behave.
if the person does not know how to act then yes i agree
In this day and age of political correctness, I strongly doubt that the cinema would have been able to refuse entry to these people. I think though that the carers, and by the sounds of things there must have been a fair few of those, must shoulder a lot of the responsibility for this shambles. They obviously would be well aquainted with the people that they were taking. Why on earth would they take these people in the first place if they were going to gain nothing from the experience?
Surely if all these kids, I say kids though I fully accept that I'm not exactly sure of the details, but surely if all they wanted to do was run around and generally let off steam, wouldn't a park have been a better place to take them?
It just seems a little inconsiderate to me to take these people to a place where they would disrupt other people's lives.
As I say though I don't know the full facts of the story and could be missing something. After all maybe these were kids that usually can sit and watch a movie without any problems but for whatever reason were just very excited. In that case then I'd say that it's just tough on everybody else. I think that falls under the category of, 'Shit happens'
Dan.
If it were my movie theater I think I would feel awkward about keeping them out, unless it had happened before, but I wouldn't think twice
Bob about throwing them out once it happened. It's called giving the person the benefit of the doubt, or, to put it a different way, enough rope to hang themselves with.
I don't think they have a damn right to refuse them entry in to a business no matter what. I do think however that the kids should have been taken to a movie for there level. I think part of the problem is that the caretakers more than the people wanted to see the film so the people were just brought along. Which honestly is not ccool. I have had that done to me granted I knew not to act like that but for some mentally challenged people, that is there only way to communicate. Plus the place where the caretakers are working may have told them they had to bring them to the movies. my school would have us take the mentally challenged kids with us and of course one named ashley couldnt talk at all and screamed. poor girl. we lucked out in that we didn't hae to take brandi she broke windows and was quite distructive to property. I think that the mentally challenged deserve as much rights as we do.
Jenny you raised a valid point about the carers showing a lack of responsibility. Damien looked into this problem and it has transpired that the charity, Enable,have a large surplus of donated cash at the end of the year, and they must spend this cash to plead poverty and be sure of raising another few £100,000. They take their punters to cinema and theatres, incidently these people get in free, therefore ruining the show for people who have paid sometimes quite a lot of money to see the show or film ect. It's wrong and it's prefectly legal.