To Rome With Love

Why is it more fun and way cooler to go to the cinema in a different country?

After our fab Friday off we decided that, seeing as though Rain had work the next day, we should keep our evening activities quiet. So, we decided to go to the cinema. The Lincoln Plaza is really near our hostel, so as we walked back (just before we stocked up on fruit from the fruit stall) we popped into the box office to have a look. After some indecision (we are two of the most indecisive people alive. Literally, nothing gets done) we settled on the 8.10 showing of To Rome With Love. We went home very excited.

To make the whole situation even more exciting, we still had our M&M hoard and so decided we'd munch on them whilst watching the film. However, it suddenly dawned on us that, due to our economic savvyness, we didn't really have that many, and certainly not enough to last an entire film. And so, with only a few minutes to go before the start of the film, we hurried out on an M&M hunt. It does make me laugh that so much of our time in New York has been taken up with M&Ms, but it is a totally valid way to spend time in New York. Don't let anyone tell you different. thankfully, M&Ms aren't hard to find here, so we quickly got hold of our new faves (M&Ms and pretzel, in case you're wondering. Now, I'm not a huge pretzel fan, but pretzel M&Ms don't taste like pretzels. They're just crunchy. Yum yum.) and returned to the cinema, having cleverly skipped all the ads.

It's actually a really cool cinema, with the proper writing displaying what films are on which always make me think of Greece, and is underground so that when you take the escalator down into the lobby it's like entering a heavily popcorn scented subway.
It's so strange because it was really just like being at home, only maybe like being at home in a dream, because it's all basically the same, only a little different and I'm not sure why.

Anyway, the film was really good. A bit bizarre, but what else do you expect from Woody Allen. It felt appropriate that we were watching a Woody Allen film as New York is, after all, where he started his jazz career. I also love how we've now watched two Rome based films whilst in New York. Each time they've reminded me of the beauty of Rome, and how much I've already seen and done this Summer, and how much I've still got to look forward to, and how lucky I am.