During this latest lockdown I’ve spent a lot (maybe too much?) time in front of my TV watching a variety of recorded movies, and I have been surprised just how many times I have pressed the delete button on my remote after just a few minutes of thumping music noise, mumbled dialogue, unreadable subtitles, unrecognisable (and ‘look-alike’) characters, screeching car chases and explosive crashes. Not to mention more automatic gunfire than ‘Desert Storm’, more “mother-****ing” language than heard on an American prison yard, and enough ‘rumpy-pumpy’ to satisfy the most seasoned voyeur !
Luckily, there are one or two channels where you can still enjoy films from the days when the background music didn’t drown out every conversation, clever lighting was used so that you knew what was happening when the action was taking place after dark, and there was no possibility that you would mistake characters played by Edward G. Robinson for Humphrey Bogart or Bette Davis for Ava Gardner.
Oh! … and, before I forget .. Whatever happened to stories with a …
… “beginning, a middle and an end” ?
bigjohn 
