What I'm saying is that now I'm older - often than the people who made them were! - I rewatch, reread with a different perspective. I'm situated differently. And I'm not *just* reading and watching repackaged things from my childhood.
What I'm saying is that now I'm older - often than the people who made them were! - I rewatch, reread with a different perspective. I'm situated differently. And I'm not *just* reading and watching repackaged things from my childhood.
I watched The Sound of Music every day (yes) when I was seven. And yes, now I perceive it mostly as a story about Captain Von Trapp, about what it take to face down Nazism and as an adult after loss and tragedy to continue to allow yourself to be moved by love and kindness.