My wife and I went to see STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS last
night. There is this Bistro Theater in
Belleville that we love to go to because you can sit in a comfortable chair,
not a bad seat in the house and you can get actual food (and BEER)! Anyway, the movie started and those famous
yellow credits started scrolling across a starry night, black background with the
brassy, orchestral harmony of John Williams filling the void.
I won’t give away any spoilers if anyone hasn’t seen it but
it was like seeing a long lost old friend again. And
just like seeing a long lost friend there were moments of awkwardness,
especially since we had some previous bad blood (the PREQUELS) and I honestly
thought I would never see this friend after our fond farewell (RETURN OF THE
JEDI). But we overcame the awkwardness
(KYLO REN) and rehashed the past a bit while looking forward to the future
(REY). We laughed, we cried, we almost had a heart
attack during some of the action sequences but eventually we knew we were
friends once again. At the end of our
little excursion, we promised to keep in touch a little better but secretly
knew we probably wouldn’t see each other again until next year (or until the
DVD comes out).
So if STAR WARS is an old friend for you like it is for me,
I’d say give that friend another chance.
It’s worth the effort to rekindle this particular relationship.
Beer helps too.
