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An observation from the train…

A mother and her two children are not far from me on the train.  She has a bottle of beer in her hand, which she takes a large pull from every few minutes.  Someone she knows is sitting accross the aisle, and a few seats down.  The mother is carrying on a (mostly) one-sided conversation with this woman across the aisle by shouting over the noise, over the people.  Her children are quiet the entire trip.  Two daughters, both very young.  I look over at the mother at one point as she is shouting at the woman and swinging her beer bottle.  The older girl looks at me, looks at the bottle gripped in her mother’s hand, and looks away.  At every station, as new people get in, people notice the mother.  The older girl looks at the bottle, and then into the faces of these people that notice.  Embarassed.  59th Street stop – the mother gets up and leaves with the younger daughter.  The older daughter stays seated.  The mother stands outside the train window, still having a conversation – apparantly – with the woman who can no longer hear her.  She sways as she laughs.  She pounds on the window by her oldest daughter’s head.  The girl smiles, and looks around to see how many people are watching.  The doors shut, the girl watches her mother as the train pulls away.  She curls up against the wall.  Head down.  Hiding.

“Let The Right One In” – a swedish movie that has been getting a lot of buzz.  Frankly, in my opinion, it’s about time someone made a movie about children vampires.  Great movie – scary and beautifully shot.