Last night, I went to see Michael Moore's "Capitalism." When I got to the window, my companion was already buying our tickets, and I heard her say, "One senior." !!???!???!??!!!! The girl selling the ticket didn't bat an eye. $2.50 discount. "What's wrong?" my companion queried, but she was laughing. "I've been doing that for a long time."
"I don't like it," I said. "I've never done that." I felt weak.
Inside, I wanted to buy some wine. That is a great new thing the theater does now, selling wine. I used to have to sneak drinks in.
"Can I see your I.D.?"
The irony of that was wonderful. I'm not old enough to qualify for the one thing and far too old not to qualify for the other. As wonderful as the irony was, though, I was not enjoying it. Any of it.
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Nobody got all the answers to the quiz a few posts back. The photographer is Man Ray. The subject is Marcel Duchamp in drag as Rrose Selavy. It was a play on "Eros, C'est la vie." In the film "The Moderns," Nick Hart drinks at the Bar Selavy. The soundtrack to that movie is not available, but it is wonderful. Perhaps, though, its unavailability creates the allure.
Ah....4 out of 5. I figured the movie I found was a bit obscure to be the one you were referring to.
ReplyDeleteRecently a young man selling me a ticket at the theater offered me the senior discount. I was suitably insulted so he apologized and gave me the discount anyway. No, I don't like it either.
I wonder why --
ReplyDeletewhy people don't like it at a certain age and then somewhere a long the line people ask for it for everything. What is the age of acceptance?
I met a man at the antique shop yesterday who was going to be 90 in March. He was the youngest heart I'd run into in a VERY long time. He told me he and his wife don't "do it as much as they used to" -- and then did two hip thrusts.
They had just returned from a trip to Poland (they had traveled everywhere in the world it seems) and the said it was the most beautiful place he had ever been. They bought up stuff from me, oddly, including all my religious icons. I asked how long he was married (his wife with him) and she said "only 32 years, I'm the second wife."
My goodness they were delightful.
How was the movie?
The movie was pretty good. I didn't find any obvious flaws in it.
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