Yesterday, the bulk of my day was spent watching IT Chapter One and Chapter Two, and Joker. Mama loved to spend time watching and analyzing movies. She even took a film class led by Terry Frazier when she was in her thirties. She was very methodical in her later years about her entertainment choices and enjoyed watching all the movies of one director or actor or reading all of the books by a certain author. She was essentially leading courses for herself, especially in the summer. So she would have enjoyed a themed movie day.
Joker was a wonderful movie - she enjoyed Comic Book movies - in fact, one of my big regrets is not going with her to see Black Panther. She really wanted to see it. Joker showed how a mentally ill man was continually mistreated until he descended into complete madness and justified his killings because of the mistreatment he received. He became the face of a movement against the wealthy. Mama would have really enjoyed talking about this movie and its indictment on the abandonment of the concept of noblesse-oblige in today's "aristocracy," which really doesn't exist anymore. Aristocrats typically also prided themselves on intellect. Today's American wealthy only focus on wealth and they seem to have complete contempt for those less fortunate than they. This movie champions the rights of the underprivileged and access to healthcare, albeit in a way that unfortunately glamorizes murder.
Mama was also a sucker for a Stephen King movie - good or bad- she just enjoyed the experience. She loved Christine - the whole concept of a jealous car just tickled her. I think she would have also enjoyed the IT movies. These movies juxtapose real monsters with the actual monsters we are faced with every day - control freaks, bullies, and abusive domestic situations. She did not mind a cheesy horror film. She was a teenager in the 50s and early 60s, after all. She grew up with The Thing and The Blob, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and she loved them all.
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