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.
observations, issues, 'realities'
which 'reasonable people' can 'reasonably' differ on.
There are observations, issues, 'realities'
which, when people decline the conventional consensus
are considered to be insane.
Most of the time, it's a reasonable label.
Sometimes, as with OThuga, it is the Main Stream Media brainwashed society that is insane . . . a la Eric Fromm's SAN SOCIETY insane.
On the one hand, none of us can ever, this side of eternity, hope to be 100% understood by anyone, much less 100% of 'others.'
Even identical twins reared in a very stable consistent home have a very different life experience because the one is not really totally the other. They do not 100% of the time have 100% the same identical thoughts and feelings.
On the other hand, Holy Spirit fostered empathy can, by His Grace, offer us through another Spirit Filled mortal an incredible amount of understanding, empathy, congruence.
It is one thing to throw the baby out with the bath in terms of human experience and observation--because of some irrational or hyper prissy pseudo objectivist criteria.
It is something else to recognize that even micrometers have limitations and adjust one's expectations accordingly.
AND
Wisdom recognizes that Almighty God knows us thoroughly, exhaustively, 100% completely. That He knew from before the foundation of the world and still considered us, His feeble, finite creation, to be worth His own death and suffering via the person of His Only Begotten Son, is one of the infinite mysteries of the construct of Love.
To deny that love in any sense of the word to any degree has to be one of the, if not THE worst insults, travesties, most horrific stupidities in all Creation.
To try and squeeze that Love and any understanding of it into finite, prissy, pseudo-super-rationalist criteria and constructions on reality . . . would, logically, be very close to such a hideous travesty, insult, stupidity.