MindSpinner

I’m funny about watching movies. I don’t care to watch them by myself, so I don’t see many of them, even on video. I think of watching a movie or eating out as something one does with somebody else. This is, of course, silly, but there are some things you can’t reason yourself out of. When I do see a movie on my own, I’m having this mental conversation about it with somebody who isn’t there - likely someone who would have shared my interest in it.

When Beowulf and Grendel opens in this area, however, I’m just going to have to grab somebody and go or else go by myself. I love the old poem, especially in Anglo-Saxon, and John Gardner’s Grendel, too. So I can’t wait to see how this new film rendition of the story comes off. Any retelling of an old tale embodies as much of the psyche of the age that retells it as it does the psyche of the age in which it was first composed, which makes for intriguing overlays. The poem itself, of course, is a product of these.