Photo: Frame from the film “Avatar. The Way of Water”
According to India Today, in the city of Peddapuram (Andhra Pradesh) during the screening of the film Avatar by James Cameron. The road of water “There was a sad incident. A man named Lakshmireddi Srinu died right in the cinema of a heart attack. His younger sister, who was watching the picture with him, urgently called the doctors, who pronounced him dead.
It turned out that the deceased suffered from hypertension. And he was too concerned with what was happening on the screen, which led to the tragedy. The doctor, who examined the spectator’s body, said so: “the cause of death is overexcitation”, which affected the heart.
The official diagnosis is called sudden cardiac death. Indian cardiologist Sanjiv Gera, who was contacted by reporters for comment, said this is not uncommon, for example, in the context of watching important football matches or some strong emotional experiences in everyday life. “In this man’s case, the cause was most likely a heart attack with a history of ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation. It is possible that there is a rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque or an arrhythmia against the background of excessive excitement.
In this regard, they remember that in 2010, when the first Avatar was released, this already happened: a 42-year-old man in Taiwan died of a heart attack while watching the image.
