A Mother's Visit

Finally a belated family duty done yesterday as my mother came to call to take care of her Birthday/Mother's Day gift.

On the whole, it was a very good day with a stop at Gift of Art (One of the best independent downtown stores in London) for gifts for a friend and Father's Day and having a nice lunch at the Central Library's Little Red Roaster.  If my power cord didn't malfunction for my netbook and any of the public wi-fi links were strong or stable enough, it could have a completely good time at that particular moment in all respects.

However, the best part was taking her to see The Avengers movie on its last day at Rainbow Cinema. My mother usually has to be all but pushed to see fantasy and action films.  Really, she came of age of big films like the James Bond series, The Dirty Dozen and Sam Peckinpah's stuff like The Wild Bunch and movie action still throws her? Interestingly enough, full fantasy world films like The Lord of the Rings seem beyond her, but superhero films, with its fantasy elements placed in a contemporary world setting, feel reachable to her.

Regardless, it was fun explaining the various elements of the Marvel Universe in the film to her.  I loved having to comment to her like when Loki makes an appearance in Germany with great lines like "Remember, he's the God of Mischief and he's out to make some right now" or explaining why the Hulk could not lift Thor's hammer in the helicarrier fight or the happy fellow during the end credits. She did say it made the film much more understandable to her, which means that a trivia track on the home video releases in September is called for her if her reaction is typical.

All in all, it was a better day than I had hoped.