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butterflydreaming My friend and former co-worker RH gave me a gift card to Sundance Cinemas, as a winter holiday gift. Which was totally nice and unexpected. Since I don't get up to the U District much anymore, I hadn't used it. Movie day yesterday was a delayed birthday celebration thing. (April 11 was Beauty & the Beast at Big Picture. I could deal with a crowd, so I opted out of the Chin Music Press event at Elliot Bay Book Co.)
A favorite thing for me is to see a movie without knowing any details about it. The choices were three with show times around 4:30, with a 5-something heist movie as a failsafe. I chose based on the small poster images on the show time screen at the ticket counter. Tommy's Honour had a dude with a golf club. The other two movies has smiling girls and glowy sunshine lighting, but the title Gifted interested me most.
I had no idea it was an Octavia Spenser, Chris Evans movie. Woot!
It is a bit of a glowy sunshine movie. But it has a one eyed cat, and the classroom boredom resonated with me.
It does make me think that a story of a "gifted" non-genius needs to be told. When Frank says he learned a problem solving technique (Trachenberg method) at 8, I thought we were going to see how this sharp first grader's dad was also gifted but had been overlooked because, poor.
I also wondered if Evans and Spencer were going to get married and be a family all together.
This is why I have so many WIPs...
A favorite thing for me is to see a movie without knowing any details about it. The choices were three with show times around 4:30, with a 5-something heist movie as a failsafe. I chose based on the small poster images on the show time screen at the ticket counter. Tommy's Honour had a dude with a golf club. The other two movies has smiling girls and glowy sunshine lighting, but the title Gifted interested me most.
I had no idea it was an Octavia Spenser, Chris Evans movie. Woot!
It is a bit of a glowy sunshine movie. But it has a one eyed cat, and the classroom boredom resonated with me.
It does make me think that a story of a "gifted" non-genius needs to be told. When Frank says he learned a problem solving technique (Trachenberg method) at 8, I thought we were going to see how this sharp first grader's dad was also gifted but had been overlooked because, poor.
I also wondered if Evans and Spencer were going to get married and be a family all together.
This is why I have so many WIPs...
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Date: 2017-04-20 03:13 pm (UTC)I don't say this enough: I love your story brain.
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Date: 2017-04-20 03:24 pm (UTC)I feel like there's a story to tell about poor white kid who's "sharp as a tack" and/or "creative" who started working as soon as (s)he could, to supplement a single parent income, and ends up being a single parent, too. And how life closes a lot of doors when you're poor or middle class.
And how life gives other gifts, but it's never too late to open the ones you didn't think you could get to keep.
I wanted the teacher to be a closeted lesbian, too, btw.
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Date: 2017-04-20 05:10 pm (UTC)And happy belated birthday (celebration and wishes)
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Date: 2017-04-20 05:25 pm (UTC)Thank you!
Did you get any LJ friends moving over? IIRC you were on LJ, too, before we met here.
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Date: 2017-04-20 06:29 pm (UTC)