This weekend, tens of millions of people in the United States

and tens of millions more around the world, in Columbus, Georgia, in Cardiff, Wales,

in Chongqing, China, in Chennai, India will leave their homes,

they'll get in their cars or they'll take public transportation or they will carry themselves by foot,

and they'll step into a room and sit down next to someone they don't know

or maybe someone they do, and the lights will go down and they'll watch a movie.

They'll watch movies about aliens or robots, or robot aliens or regular people.

But they will all be movies about what it means to be human. Millions will feel awe or fear,

millions will laugh and millions will cry. And then the lights will come back on,

and they'll reemerge into the world they knew several hours prior. And millions of people will look at the world