Last year, The Boy and I went to see the restored cut of Sergio Leone‘s Once Upon a Time in the West. He’s a child of the generation of Playstation, Wii and iPods so I half-expected him to be bored out of his skull. Aside from a couple of fidgety moments, he was in its thrall for the 165-minute running time.
This year, he accompanied me to the New Zealand Film Festival screening of Takashi Miike‘s 13 Assassins:
INT. CIVIC THEATRE – EVENING
The LIGHTS come up as END CREDITS scrolling slowly on the BIG SCREEN.
Our WRITER turns to his teenage son, THE BOY.
WRITER
What’d you think?
BOY
That was so...
WRITER
(V.O.)
‘Awesome’? ‘Spectacular’? ‘Cool’?
BOY
... violent.
Oh.
