Building sight

Here is a list of the movies watched by the man and his mother in the days after her successful cataract surgery:

•Vertigo

•Pet Sematary

•The Princess Bride

•Tootsie

•Jaws

•Mrs. Doubtfire

•Muriel’s Wedding

•Chinatown

•Terms of Endearment

•The Big Sick (at a theater)

What connects all of these seemingly disparate flicks, he wonders? Aside from the fact that Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire are essentially the same movie, the thread connecting all of them is that for the first time in ages his mother viewed them in all their radiant detail and ridiculous, vivid color and light. For the first time in years, she could see what she’d been missing.

And it was good.

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