April 3, 2020 8-10 pm
This event took place over a Zoom meeting. Because we are all social distancing we had to watch the movie in separate places, but still wanted to have the experience of watching together. So, we started the evening by talking a little before watching the movie. We introduced ourselves and then started the movie once everyone was settled. At first we tried screen sharing, but the quality was nit very good so we each decided to pull up the movie on our own devices, but kept the chat open.
The movie we watched was a Thai film directed by Kristen Tan, called Pop Aye. It tells the story of a man going through a mid-life crisis and reminiscing on his childhood after being “reunited” with an elephant he grew up with. We meet a lot of different characters along his journey and the story is very interesting. I have never seen a Thai movie before, and I thought it was pretty good.
I liked that we were still able to get together to watch a movie, especially during this time. When we were on campus I loved going to this event and so having just a little bit of normalcy was comforting. I enjoyed talking to everyone once the movie was over, also. It was great hearing everyone else’s opinion right after we finished.