Item
Watching Pre-March 2020 Movies and TV Shows
Title (Dublin Core)
Watching Pre-March 2020 Movies and TV Shows
Description (Dublin Core)
I’ve spoken with a few friends about this strange phenomenon I experience sometimes when watching movies or TV shows now. When watching a movie, when I see a large number of people in a room together without masks I get a short bout of anxiety. I immediately think, “What are all those people doing in a room together without masks on?” But then I remember that the movie I’m watching was filmed before March 2020. I’ve noticed my roommates do the same thing when we watch movies together. I distinctly remember this scene in “Gone Girl” where there are many people in a large room walking around and one of my roommates said, “Wow, look at all those people in a room together.”
I think this shows that while many of us view the pandemic as a temporary moment in history and will “soon” be over— the pandemic has still embedded fears and anxieties in me that I would otherwise not think about. How I would approach normal things i.e. walking around in a grocery store or watching a movie, I now approach in a completely different way.
I don’t think these fears or anxieties will last very long after the pandemic is over. It’s just interesting to see the ways both my friends and myself behave towards completely normal things pre-March 2020.
I think this shows that while many of us view the pandemic as a temporary moment in history and will “soon” be over— the pandemic has still embedded fears and anxieties in me that I would otherwise not think about. How I would approach normal things i.e. walking around in a grocery store or watching a movie, I now approach in a completely different way.
I don’t think these fears or anxieties will last very long after the pandemic is over. It’s just interesting to see the ways both my friends and myself behave towards completely normal things pre-March 2020.
Date (Dublin Core)
September 24, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Patrick Pagnozzi
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Patrick Pagnozzi
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HSE
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Text Story
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Entertainment: Movies, Theater, etc.
English
Social Distance
English
Recreation & Leisure
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
TV show
movie
Gone Girl
mask
anxiety
large gathering
Phoenix
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
movie
mask
anxiety
large gathering
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
09/24/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
09/24/2020
09/29/2020
Date Created (Dublin Core)
09/24/2020
This item was submitted on September 24, 2020 by Patrick Pagnozzi using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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