So a little backstory... I am half-Taiwanese and so I am in China often. I was there a month ago for Christmas, visiting family, and I decide to go watch a movie by myself. Hollywood movies there are in English, but subtitled in Chinese, and I take seat in the movie theater.

Two seats down from me is this Chinese grandmother, at least 65 years old (possibly older) and next to her away from me are what I believe to be her two teenage grandchildren. The movie starts and this woman STARTS NARRATING EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENS IN THE MOVIE... I'm fluent in Mandarin Chinese so I understand everything she said, although I'm sure it's just as irritating otherwise. So for the whole time, it was like this...

(In Mandarin Chinese)

"Oh, she's climbing the cliff"

*2 second pause*

"Oh, she's singing"

*2 second pause*

"Oh, she's splashing the water"

.... and on and on and on, and it did NOT stop at all. Because it's an old lady, I tried to ignore it. But after an hour of this nonstop, I reached my breaking point, turned to face her, and said somewhat angrily (in Mandarin Chinese)

"Excuse me, I'm trying to watch the movie, could you please shut your mouth?!"

Immediately she goes silent and no longer talks and I start feeling mortified. I could've worded it so much better and gentler but it just slipped out the way it did. I just finished watching the movie and left.

Don't kill me, but from my experience as a half-White and half-Asian person, being quiet in a movie theater is more of an etiquette in the West compared to China, so maybe I'm mad at someone for cultural differences they can't really control? Also, I wondered if maybe her grandkids needed the narration (out of perhaps, blindness maybe), but they seemed completely able bodied so it might just have been a personality quirk. 

I dont know, I've been wondering about that since. AITA?