Air conditioned welcome - Claustrophobic Exit

Have you people ever noticed that when we go to a movie we enter through a glamorous entry door
with the most fanciful decor that the multiplex can afford and blasting air conditioners requiring you to reach out for your cardigans ushered in by the most polite staff this side of the exit door

Fast forward to the end of the movie and post the mandatory credits song number you look out for the smiling usher and face a stern cleaning personnel who glares at your popcorn burping face . You hurriedly deposit your carton and plastic cup into the yawning plastic bag and then look towards the shady hidden exit door next to the screen as she now stands blocking the door you came in by.

Yes sir . You cannot go out as you came in . You stumble out into a claustrophobic windowless unpainted tunnel that reeks of two decades old trapped air and seems to keep opening through mysterious dirty doors into even more darker dirtier pathways till you hit the final door

You either land straight out in the garbage laden footpath behind the multiplex or thrown out straight into a road away from the mall and the multiplex

I wonder at the marketing strategy of the mall and multiplex folks. Do they perhaps conclude that these margarine or caramel burping folks have hit rock bottom on their liquidity and there is no lurking customer within so no point in pampering him or her with a plush exit . Or perhaps they are ashamed of us . " How could you even watch this movie ? Sneak away please . We are ashamed of you !"

Of course I spend my silent tread back through the dirty corridor listening to the hushed critique of the patrons and wonder what was so " dhaasu" or "sahee" about the movie.

The most telling comment I have always heard is " This is a Dvd movie . No point in wasting time here "

I wonder if it meant we can waste time watching the movie anyway but no point wasting time walking through the dirty exits