Students clamor into the stadium, blankets in hand, ready to endue the weather in the 40’s to watch a 10 year old give two adults enough lasting damage to kill them three times over.
On Thursday, Hagerty hosted the flick on the 50, a movie night held on the 50 year line at St. Montry’s stadium. The cost of the entry ticket entitled each student a bottle of water and a bag of popcorn to further the experience. Movie of choice? Home Alone.
“I think that it kind of just brings everyone together. [It’s] just something to look forward to, on a Thursday night especially,” sophomore Jaya Perusad said. “And it’s just a fun little thing we can do for our school. That’s really cute for the holidays and we have it every year.”
With tickets priced at only five dollars, any student has the opportunity to participate.
“It was a very connected event. I think some kids have mixed feelings about the holiday season, especially if they don’t have the best home life,” junior Yaishkenielis Cordero said. “But then, when you do events like this, everybody gets to feel like a part of the community and spend time with people they care about.”
The event coincided with Winter Week’s Pajama Day, encouraging students to show up in cozy attire for the movie. Nearly every student wore some form of pajamas, in addition to bringing pillows and blankets for comfort and protection against the cold.
“I think it went really well,” leadership sponsor Sarah Bearss said. “I absolutely love when it’s cold weather because if we do it during homecoming, it tends to still be hot and muggy or rainy.”
Usually, Flick on the 50 is held during homecoming week; however, leadership was unable to obtain the permits on time, so the event was pushed back to Winter Week.
“The company takes a long time to get through everything, especially with all the new permission slip rules,” Persaud said. “So that’s the only reason why it took so long. It all worked out well in the end.”
The movie was chosen by the student body through an eCampus poll completed by over 200 students.
“It’s a lot of student choice. The students get to pick the movie and they get to pick the group of friends that they come with and all that kind of stuff,” Bearss said. “I like that there’s a lot of student freedom, and they get to pick how they want to enjoy the movie.”
With over 300 tickets sold, everything that could have went well for the event’s seventh year did, according to leadership and students.
“I quite liked how everybody was kind of chill and in their element,” said Cordero. “It just felt like nobody was really trying too hard, they were just there to enjoy the movie and it was very simple.”
