In The World of Plastic Heroes

In The World of Plastic Heroes (from the series: Still Lives)

This particular cinema, just off Walsh Tarleton in West Lake, is a homage to Tinseltown. You can count on it to display the posters and trappings that the distributors provide to promote the latest blockbuster. For the recent Fantastic Four movie, they had a full sized statue of the Silver Surfer. They even had real motor bikes in the foyer for some film or other.

This mother and child seemed engulfed by their surroundings - and the child seemed strangely out of place. “Point - counterpoint” said something inside me. I guess they were waiting for a movie to end and for older children to come flooding forth with tales of Spiderman and how he triumphed against all the odds over some evil bad guy.

If only life were so black and white and colorful.

I’m a lover of the pop-corn culture. The pop-corn was here before the settlers came.