length of movies.......

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. Alfred Hitchcock

This set me to thinking................

It's almost impossible to give an exact measurement for the volume of the human bladder. That is, everyone's ability to hold a certain amount of urine differs. The point at which a person can't "hold it in" anymore and urine is expelled from the urinary bladder is known as Micturition.

The urge to urinate is stimulated by expansion of of the bladder. As the bladder walls fill with urine and expand, stretch receptors are stimulated and the Micturition reflex is triggered.

It is interesting to note that the reason infants are unable to control the voluntary muscles associated with Micturition is because voluntary control of Micturition becomes possible as the brain and spinal cord mature.

The majority of sources that I found reported that the adult bladder could contain about 600 to 800 cm³ (ml). However, they also noted that the Micturition point is between 150 and 300 cm³ (ml).

The longest movie I could find is "The Cure for Insomnia"  about a guy reading his poem for 3 and a half days straight and has no plot. It has a running time of 5220 minutes (87 hours). It is meant to be so boring it helps cure "Insomnia".

"Matrjoschka" is however the longest running film in terms of time. It has a running time of 5700 minutes (95 hours). The images and sequences are based on a single photo. The film shows a boy riding a bicycle, a street, houses, garages, and sky. Over time, the image changes, but those movements are very slow and not directly visible.

Maybe the cinema seats are fitted with a commode ?

In Ken Follett's book 'Jackdaws' is a wonderful passage about a suspected French collaborator being tortured via her bladder......................

She's a very neatly dressed old lady who obviously has a strict code of etiquette. She is taken to the SS office, seated in the typing pool,  and given a pot of real coffee and a jug of water. The coffee is delicious and she drinks it all followed by some water.

One SS officer comments to the one in charge, 'are we not going to question her?", "No, we will wait awhile.....". She eventually asks where the toilet is. She's not allowed to go..... time passes and she becomes desperate. She can't pee herself as she is to prim and proper, especially in a room full of people...She holds on and on but in the end is desperate. The SS officer then takes her into the corridor and leads her to the toilet.

He holds open the door to let her see the pot..... He then asks her where the British pilot is hiding ..... She is so desperate that she tells him in order to be able to pee.