She stood in front of the love movie poster while he attentively watched the science fiction movie poster. He muttered: "Why do you always like watching love movies and then sob and cry with the characters. What do you get by watching broken love movies?".
She turned back and glared at him: "At least it reminds me that emotions have value. As for you, you only care about the universe and the end of the world all day long, all macro things. Do you want to avoid reality?".
He slightly raised his eyebrows and raised his voice to a higher pitch: "I want to see people in the final limits.When facing the black hole or the doomsday, we know who we are".She smiled faintly: "Humans also reveal their nature when in love and when breaking up.A harsh breakup can hurt many years later and is shifting from love to hatred".
The crowd behind, starting to queue to buy tickets, while the atmosphere between the two people is heating up.
Romance movies often lure people with illusions," he said. "In real life, reality is much more crude and cruel." "As for your movies," she argued, "there are always heroes who save the world at the last minute. Isn't that an illusion? Women like me go to the cinema not only for entertainment but often to find a shelter for my soul, to live with the characters in it and immerse myself in another world. I watch romance movies, to understand that human life is short. You shouldn't live without daring to love.
He nodded: "And I like dramatic stories that force people to reveal their true personalities when making life-or-death choices. I watch science fiction also to remind myself that life is short. You shouldn't waste it on emotions that exhaust you.
After that sentence, the two remained silent for a long time, then she laughed: "It turns out we are going in two directions to find the same thing that is the meaning of life". He continued: "And also understanding. Perhaps we choose the genre we lack, people who are too rational seek emotions. People who are emotional seek cold space to balance".
She decided: "Let's watch the movie I like today. Next time I'll watch the movie I like". And they walked into the screening room. On the screen, the story begins with a tearful separation without a date to meet again. Among hundreds of strangers, they sit next to each other, watching a world that is not theirs. And perhaps, whether it's a movie about love or the apocalypse, what keeps young people staying until the last minute is not the special effects or tears. But the feeling of seeing themselves in it, small, with many contradictions, but still always looking for someone sitting next to them, looking back at the bright screen to feel sharing, not lonely.
