{"id":5856,"date":"2005-07-03T23:24:36","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T23:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/ifc-at-my-house.html"},"modified":"2005-07-03T23:24:36","modified_gmt":"2005-07-03T23:24:36","slug":"ifc-at-my-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/ifc-at-my-house.html","title":{"rendered":"IFC at My House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second-oldest son David arrived for a short visit from Virginia today, armed with his laptop, so I could see his films that I’d not been able to get to work on my computer at home – I had one of the old batch – based on the Knight’s Tale<\/em> from The Canterbury Tales<\/em> and a new one, made this summer.<\/p>\n

I’m not a mother prepared only to see the best in what my children do. Who could, after 23 years and five children plus a teaching career, plus a writing career? No one does anyone any favors by murmuring, "Veddy nice" even when a piece could use some time on the chopping block. <\/p>\n

That said…Veddy nice.<\/em> As you recall, The Knight’s Tale<\/em> was the one I sat there and "watched" like an idiot, thinking that my son had done this really creative abstract work, when actually what I was viewing was the Windows Media default spirograph squiggles. The real thing is much better than the squiggles, and, I’ll say, rather shockingly so. I was impressed – it had terrific mood, interesting imagery, and, most surprising of all, some rather good acting. <\/p>\n

What I’m glad to see in him, as in any young artist, is that he’s thinking big. He’s not making movies about a 20-year old college kid in Virginia who manages a Burger King. Not that this would be a bad movie. Not that, he actually  might <\/em>be making movies about that kid, underneath it all. No, he’s got ideas, and he’s trying to work them out. <\/p>\n

I’m hopeful. I can stop worrying about that one<\/em>. For a while.<\/p>\n

Now, if only Mom could do so well in her<\/em> creative endeavors….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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