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21 dead as Mozambique erupts in violence after election court rulingLeadership Lorain County celebrates 22nd Difference Makers GalaAn image showing a plane passenger's brightly lit phone screen during a night flight has sparked a heated discussion about airplane etiquette on Reddit . The image was featured in a viral post shared by user Mooseycanuck and has amassed 15,000 upvotes since it was posted on December 15. The poster shared a caption with the photo saying: "My neighbor on a night flight. She wouldn't reduce the brightness even after I requested her." The image shows a dimly lit plane cabin with a lone passenger's bright phone screen standing out. Was the poster making a reasonable request or does the neighbor have every right to use her phone at her desired brightness level? Nick Leighton, an etiquette expert and co-host of the podcast Were You Raised by Wolves? , told Newsweek: "It's not an entirely unreasonable request and it would have been nice had it been accommodated. But it's certainly possible the phone-owner had legitimate reasons for needing the brightness dialed up, so best to try to give them the benefit of the doubt." The viral post comes as more than half of Americans (57 percent) are reported to be preparing for winter travel , with the majority (96 percent) planning to travel as much or even more than last winter, according to the TripAdvisor study released in November. According to a December report by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), "solid growth in passenger demand" continued in October. The load factor—the percentage of available seats an airline sells on its flights—reached 83.9 percent for international travel and 84.5 percent for domestic travel in October, the IATA report found. 'Mutual Responsibility' Etiquette expert Lisa Mirza Grotts, author of A Traveler's Passport to Etiquette in a Post-Pandemic World , told Newsweek : "It's puzzling why some passengers, in any class of service, feel entitled to disrupt a night flight when the cabin is dark for a reason: to allow passengers to sleep." She added: "While the overhead light is available for use, shining a bright phone screen is disruptive. It's not all about you when sharing space with others; consideration and respect go a long way, especially on a transatlantic flight." Etiquette expert Nicole Rose, the founder and CEO of Poised & Proper, told Newsweek that etiquette is a "two-way street, especially in shared spaces like an airplane cabin...it's about awareness and adjusting our behavior to ensure comfort all around." Rose noted that there is a "mutual responsibility," explaining that "while it's considerate for one to dim their screen, it's also prudent for others to come prepared for such situations." Leighton agreed, saying: "It's always a good idea to have ear plugs and an eye mask whenever you travel, day or night. We can't always control those around us, but we can try to tune them out." 'Rude' and 'Inconsiderate' The Reddit community largely sided with the original poster, criticizing the passenger with the bright phone screen. User JamonHamon said: "The phone does NOT need to be that bright," while leechpeach92 agreed, saying: "people really are so inconsiderate." TwpMun added: "It baffles me how rude a person has to be to flat out say 'no,' when asked to do a simple thing like this." Quatropiscas offered a practical piece of advice, saying: "When you have issues with another passenger, don't talk to them directly. Always do your request to a flight attendant. They are better trained to deal with it and, if you're dealing with an obnoxious moron, there's a chance that he/she will escalate things no matter how calm and polite you were." However, some users were more understanding of the passenger with the phone. CacklingMossHag mentioned the possibility of a vision issue, saying: "she might have vision problems? I have awful eyesight and am often told my screens are too bright, but if it's any lower I get eye strain headaches and blurry vision." User djluminol noted: "If you know you're taking a night flight and light bothers you why would you not bring a blind for your eyes? Why is your comfort another person's responsibility?" Lostraylien added: "Who cares they aren't hurting anyone, if you want darkness close your eyes." Newsweek has contacted the original poster for comment via the Reddit messaging system. Do you have a travel-related story to share? Let us know via life@newsweek.com and your story could be featured on Newsweek.
“Gladiator II” asks the question: Are you not moderately entertained for roughly 60% of this sequel? Truly, this is a movie dependent on managed expectations and a forgiving attitude toward its tendency to overserve. More of a thrash-and-burn schlock epic than the comparatively restrained 2000 “Gladiator,” also directed by Ridley Scott, the new one recycles a fair bit of the old one’s narrative cries for freedom while tossing in some digital sharks for the flooded Colosseum and a bout of deadly sea-battle theatrics. They really did flood the Colosseum in those days, though no historical evidence suggests shark deployment, real or digital. On the other hand (checks notes), “Gladiator II” is fiction. Screenwriter David Scarpa picks things up 16 years after “Gladiator,” which gave us the noble death of the noble warrior Maximus, shortly after slaying the ignoble emperor and returning Rome to the control of the Senate. Our new hero, Lucius (Paul Mescal), has fled Rome for Numidia, on the North African coast. The time is 200 A.D., and for the corrupt, party-time twins running the empire (Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger), that means invasion time. Pedro Pascal takes the role of Acacius, the deeply conflicted general, sick of war and tired of taking orders from a pair of depraved ferrets. The new film winds around the old one this way: Acacius is married to Lucilla (Connie Nielsen, in a welcome return), daughter of the now-deceased emperor Aurelius and the love of the late Maximus’s life. Enslaved and dragged to Rome to gladiate, the widower Lucius vows revenge on the general whose armies killed his wife. But there are things this angry young phenom must learn, about his ancestry and his destiny. It’s the movie’s worst-kept secret, but there’s a reason he keeps seeing footage of Russell Crowe from the first movie in his fever dreams. Battle follows battle, on the field, in the arena, in the nearest river, wherever, and usually with endless splurches of computer-generated blood. “Gladiator II” essentially bumper-cars its way through the mayhem, pausing for long periods of expository scheming about overthrowing the current regime. The prince of all fixers, a wily operative with interests in both managing gladiators and stocking munitions, goes by the name Macrinus. He’s played by Denzel Washington, who at one point makes a full meal out of pronouncing the word “politics” like it’s a poisoned fig. Also, if you want a masterclass in letting your robes do a lot of your acting for you, watch what Washington does here. He’s more fun than the movie but you can’t have everything. The movie tries everything, all right, and twice. Ridley Scott marshals the chaotic action sequences well enough, though he’s undercut by frenetic cutting rhythms, with that now-familiar, slightly sped-up visual acceleration in frequent use. (Claire Simpson and Sam Restivo are the editors.) Mescal acquits himself well in his first big-budget commercial walloper of an assignment, confined though he is to a narrower range of seething resentments than Crowe’s in the first film. I left thinking about two things: the word “politics” as savored/spit out by Washington, and the innate paradox of how Scott, whose best work over the decades has been wonderful, delivers spectacle. The director and his lavishly talented design team built all the rough-hewn sets with actual tangible materials the massive budget allowed. They took care to find the right locations in Morocco and Malta. Yet when combined in post-production with scads of medium-grade digital effects work in crowd scenes and the like, never mind the sharks, the movie’s a somewhat frustrating amalgam. With an uneven script on top of it, the visual texture of “Gladiator II” grows increasingly less enveloping and atmospherically persuasive, not more. But I hung there, for some of the acting, for some of the callbacks, and for the many individual moments, or single shots, that could only have come from Ridley Scott. And in the end, yes, you too may be moderately entertained. “Gladiator II” — 2.5 stars (out of 4) MPA rating: R (for strong bloody violence) Running time: 2:28 How to watch: Premieres in theaters Nov. 21. Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic.
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