Beautiful Nonsense
as featured in Desert Exposure Magazine RaisingDad by Jim and Henry Duchene Beautiful Nonsense There are some classic movies I'll watch because I just don't like them. Why do I torture myself this way? Because I'm trying to understand what it is I don’t get. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a good example. Whenever it comes on TCM, I'll watch it. "What are those monkeys doing?" my five-year-old granddaughter asked the last time I saw it, referring to the first part of the film which takes place at the dawn of man. My father, who was watching with me, looked to see what I was going to say. "I... don't know," I admitted. "They're ugly," she noted. A little later into the movie, she asked, “What’s that black thing?” Again, I… didn’t know. I looked over to my father. He was asleep. ...