Belle

So I went to see Belle yesterday.  Sure it was a decent movie.  It could have been better, but all in all it was good.  I was coaxed into going and I didn't mind it.  There were a couple things that caught my eye while I was in the theater.  So a movie about the first Black Aristocrat didn't really open to a wide audience.  It wasn't even showing here when it first came out.  Maybe they brought it here after it performed better than expected at the box office.  Honestly I didn't think that there would be that many people at the movies to see it.  So to see that room packed was  a good thing.  I would say that it was only about twenty percent Black in there.  I wasn't surprised by that.  There just hasn't been much publicity about the movie at all.  I don't think that I've seen one commercial yet.  Going to movie also reminded me of how much I hate packed theaters.  You have no control over what other people do and how they act in a situation where they should be on their best behavior.  I was so annoyed by constant coughing and talking during the movie.  It never makes sense to me how people act like that.  It makes the movie going experience that much worse.  But after a while all that ceases.  This movie is essentially a romantic drama.  So the awkwardness of being in that movie and hearing the audience laugh a couple times when the lead character was called "Negro", "Colored", or "Mullato" was confusing to me.  I didn't find it funny, nor do I think it was meant to be funny.  Even if the way that it was said may have sounded funny, that wasn't the purpose.  Context can be everything sometimes and maybe I'm taking this out of context.  But it did irritate me a little bit when I heard that laughter.  I thought the laughter was misplaced.  Maybe I'm just overreacting, but it didn't make sense to me.  The movie itself was not groundbreaking and was quite a bit predictable.  Honestly I almost went to sleep during the movie.  It's not for everybody.  So don't take my word on the movie.  Make up your own mind about the movie.   Then you can form an opinion.