This is what we call the feeling, like in the weather. But long gone are the days when a student could afford just about any gig with his pocket money, when almost everything today seems to cost a fortune. And that it seems close and yet over, the one where we went to see a big film in a multiplex at one of the two screenings in the morning – before noon – for a handful of euros.
It was a shock, for those who were still used to it before the lockdown, to see that the 9:15 a.m. fare has risen to 9.80 euros in UGC, or 9.90 euros in MK2. All networks rely on subscriptions or cards, of course, but the cinephile who doesn't like to commit will no longer find his good morning deal. This way of experiencing culture for next to nothing without having to scour the Internet to guide one's choice of films, plays, shows is obviously in decline, except for books, where the Poche still know how to attract us nicely at very low prices.
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Some institutions are resisting, such as the dozen or so museums of the City of Paris, which charge for exhibitions, but not for permanent collections. From the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris to one of the many informal book boxes in the capital or elsewhere, you can even cultivate yourself for free. At the end of the lockdown, art galleries, which had obtained the right to reopen before museums, had also highlighted their free admission at all times to welcome a new audience.
The fact remains that today, globally, from platform subscriptions to cinema cards to museum subscriptions, in order to pay less per year, you have to consume more. With the small sample that annoys.