[betty boop]

Two people can watch one and the same movie in the same circumstances and one may find it true and wonderful and the other false and horrible.

This is actually possible, I grant you, dear kosta. But how often, really, does such a situation actually occur?

Most human beings can identify with the experience of other human beings. All are existentially in the "same boat," so to speak.

Which is to say there is a commonality in human experience such that people in movie theaters tend to identify the same things in the film projected to them. Indeed, if they didn't, that is if this were not a reliable expectation, then producers, directors, and actors wouldn't know what to do next.

[kosta50]

This is actually possible, I grant you, dear kosta. But how often, really, does such a situation actually occur?

I think it happens all the time and in great numbers. Look at the the Health Care obamination! Some people see it as mostly bad, others as the best thing since sliced bread.

Chances are that people in movie theaters experience movies the same way because people pick the same movies based on the same predisposition.

For example, the "Passion of the Christ." Chances are that atheists and non-Christians will see it one way and Christians in another. Chances are the non-Christians and atheists will most likely not even see it, but if they somehow end up going to see it, they will probably go there with their minds already made up as to how they will receive it.

The same can be said of the movie "Religioulous." It will be see as positive and great by skeptics and non-believers, but certainly as repulsive for believers.

Which is to say there is a commonality in human experience such that people in movie theaters tend to identify the same things in the film projected to them

There is commonality of human "experience" but it seems to be predicated by the predisposition. Again, the 1917 Fatima "dancing Sun" witnessed by 70,000 people illustrates this very well.

Indeed, if they didn't, that is if this were not a reliable expectation, then producers, directors, and actors wouldn't know what to do next.

Directors "target" populations with certain disposition, knowing what they like and knowing how they will experience the movie. Human predisposition is like colored glasses. It tends to influence how we "see" things subjectively.

[Quix]

INDEED.

[Quix]

Which is to say there is a commonality in human experience such that people in movie theaters tend to identify the same things in the film projected to them. Indeed, if they didn't, that is if this were not a reliable expectation, then producers, directors, and actors wouldn't know what to do next.

INDEED. VERY WELL PUT.