Their attendance, nonetheless, made me relate even more to the film. I could compare the way I was feeling about being in the same atmosphere watching this movie with white people, even though, in intensity, there is not much that is similar, to the way slaves felt about their masters and other white people. The theater also contributed to this realistic feeling. The building's darkness makes you feel like you are actually in the middle of everything that is occurring on the screen. In an artistic way, the darkness takes all attention away from everything except the film