
…ld me, beside her, started to cry. Because 30 year old me had never seen anything like that before. And 30 year old me was shocked at herself for not realizing she had never seen anything like that before. How did I go 20 plus years without seeing this on a giant screen in a packed theater, without feeling these things? How did I not realize what I was missing?
Suddenly, in the middle of a dark crowded theater, I somehow discovered time travel, because I was watching that scene as two people. My 7 year old self was clutching the arm rests next to me, totally enthralled, the kind of feeling that takes over your entire body, that transports you into the film, where you aren’t just watching, you’re living the character. The feeling you could only have as a kid, when you were so into the film you forgot it wasn’t real,…