The wife and I went to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind last night. I’ll put the review up later. Let’s do a segue into the main action here…

See the wife didn’t care one way or another about going to the film. Beside her lack of interest, everything seemed aligned against us too, we left late, got there late, had to get money in transit. We had the one minute – do you not want to go? since when do you care about what I want? argument. This was all before we got out of the car. Then at the theater, the special needs attendant was selling tickets, which is fine except he’s a little bit slower than the some of the other attendants and like I mentioned we were late. But I’m thinking karma so I behave and breathe into my tardiness.

But the gaggle of 12 year old girls pretending they were 13 tried my patience. True, they had the first position in the line when we got there but as a group they fought about why they were there in the first place. “oh my god what are we going to see?” – “i’m 13!” – “No! you’re 12!” – “Who said I’m fat?” type distractions provided an opportunity for customers who wanted concessions, because the ticket guy didn’t want to listen to the girl school argument any more than anyone else, so he left the ticket line to scoop popcorn.

So we get our tickets and now the film is in progress. And there’s something horribly wrong with the screen, because it’s dark in the theater. Oh there’s a moving picture show going on, but parts of the screen are a nice study in dark shadows. For a second I think, hmm, it’s art film, they like to do weird things. And even though we missed about 2 minutes it was clear this wasn’t going to be a linear story. Maybe the shadow dancing is an import part of the plot.

Five minutes later the manager comes in and apologizes for the burnt bulb and asks everyone if they want a refund. None of us move. Two minutes later he comes back with the granddaddy manager special readmission passes, good any time for any movie.

Now I get to see 2 movies this week. And the wife did like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by the end. It’s all aces for me.