Film Festival

The film festival is in town and this is the first year that I've really been to see several films. Besides the huge bump in prices this year, one of the other noticeable aspects is the massive lineups. Everywhere you go, you see people lining up: to buy tickets, to print tickets, to enter theatres, for rush tickets. I guess it's only natural to socialize with your neighbours in the lineups you spend hours in and one tends to meet some very interesting personalities. I met the pregnant woman who can't help but comment on everyone's attire and then laugh uncontrollably (she's going to have a real jolly kid haha), the group of 30-something women who plan on staying single forever if they have it their way, a middle-aged Indian woman isn't really there for the film; she wants to see John Abraham. Then there's some people you'd rather not meet like the queen who condescendingly pointed out that he's watching 50 films this year and had this air of superiority about him which vexed me to no end. That was a long 2 hours. All in all, I can't say that the lineups were too bad (the cute Motorola spokesman helped). I ran into the middle-aged Indian lady on the subway this morning (for the third time) and she accused me of stalking her all over the city. It turns out that her dream finally came true - she ran into John last night and she cornered him. She referred to him by his first name as if they were very close acquaintances. Yup, you meet some very "interesting" people here in Toronto.