Cinema at its best is a contradictory experience: at once personal – when the lights go down and you are in the dream of the filmmakers’ weaving – and intensely collective, as part of your response is conditioned by the cheer or concentration or fear or tedium of fellow audience members.
Source: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film/2021/12/18/the-sad-age-home-cinema/163974600013086