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At the Movies
Prior to moving, Lance had never gone to the movies with his friends even on the rare occasion he had spent time with them. That he was seeking a movie with Rikki and Lewis was perfectly out of the usual for him.
Looking at the various movie posters, Lance wondered what it was they were seeing. Was it that film that Rikki had mentioned? "Poseidon's Daughter"? He hadn't any idea.
Stopping in front of a poster of the classic film "Sabrina" from 1954, Lance thought of his maternal grandparents. The film was a favourite of theirs, he had seen it often at their house. There had been quite a few films he had first seen at his grandparents' house: "The Greatest Show on Earth", "The Ten Commandments"… John Huston's "Moby-Dick".
Closing his eyes, Lance thought back. How old had he been then? Four? Five? Six maybe. He had been in his grandparents' living room, sitting on his grandpa's lap as they watched "Moby-Dick" together. It was one of the least colourful technicolor films of the 1950's and seeing an old colour film with such muted colours had seemed so strange to him, almost as if he was looking into another world and it might as well have been. 1851, the heyday of the murder that was whaling… It didn't change the fact that seeing the titular whale charging at the screen had been the most horrifying thing he had ever seen. Well, maybe one of the most terrifying things and it didn't change his affinity for the sea, he still felt the allure of the Deep. Down in the Deep there were creatures that were to be respected and feared, but in time fear diminished with the more knowledge brought to light about such sea-beasts. Whaling was now frowned on in much of the world, but when it came to the shark, there were people who still feared them.