Rubbish in cinemas bugs me. There, I said it.
So here’s what happened.
Tamara and I like to watch a film to the end of the credits, so we are often the last to leave.
Seeing the room after the film has ended is like seeing a room after the party has ended – rubbish (‘trash’ in American English) and detritus everywhere.
Call me a fuddy-duddy (actually don’t), but I can’t believe the mess that a gathering of human beings can leave after being in one place for two hours.
Popcorn, discarded cans, boxes, wrappers – the popcorn sometimes looks like someone decided they didn’t want popcorn after all, and scattered the contents of the box on the carpet.
One night we went to see Coco Before Chanel – a French film with subtitles, with Audrey Tautou in the lead role.
As we were leaving, I noticed that the floor was clean.
A cleaner came in with her black plastic bag to pick up the rubbish, and as we passed her I commented that the room was unusually clean.
Oh yes, she said this one and Screen 3, which was also showing a French film. I asked whether this was always so, and she said yes, audiences at foreign language films always left very little rubbish.
So now we know.