ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

As I stated before, with retirement comes opportunities. Today’s opportunity was again to catch up with the classic movies of yesteryear. (Is there a yestermonth? I thought about this yesterday.)

Fresh from the library in DVD form was Frank Capra’s “Arsenic and Old Lace, starring Cary Grant, Raymond Massey and Peter Lori, and in black and white, which only added to its’ charm.

With TLW (The Little Woman) off to work, and #2 Son sound asleep in his dreams of wine, women and song, I plugged in the DVD player and set on my course of new nostalgia and catching up with all the references that have been make throughout the years to this classic.

It is a wonderful world when one can find a new art form to enjoy, new in the sense that I never really explored it in spite of the fact that I studied the cinema as an art form while in college! Viewing movies for the sake of art is fun, discovering how the director, the writers and the art director want the scene to be viewed. The dialogue and lighting playing hand in hand with each other, bringing out the art of acting with the fine actors in Arsenic and old lace. There was sex and violence, but it was only implied, and not really seem. The fight scene at the end with Raymond Massey and the police was more comical than violent, and the implied sex was cute, not really anything else.

So, if you haven’t seen this movie yet, do so. If there are movies that you still wish to see and haven’t, please do, treat yourself right and enjoy life for all it is really worth, We all have to die someday, so enjoy yourself, it may be later than you think