"The audience , who paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."
This specific scene is very interesting because it poses so many questions about the people of Macondo. They seem to be greatly overwhelmed and alarmed about the new inventions of modern day. This conflicts greatly because prior to these new inventions the people of Macondo experienced things much more questionable that should have spiked frustration or confusion, more so than a movie theater. For example, the magical return of Melquiades after his death was not alarming to anyone at all and rather just accepted. Why did Garcia Marquez write in this way and flip these two reactions in the way that he did?
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