Culture For The Non-Cultured

A few weekends ago, I went to see Rent on a movie screen. The final performance of the Broadway show had been taped, and they were showing it to enthusiastic movie goers.

Well … I could not help but notice the ages of the actors did not match up. There were a few too many crows’ feet by that woman’s eyes for me to imagine her going out with that baby-faced guy.

And I brought this up to my fellow movie-goers who pointed out that this movie was taped before a Broadway audience whose distance from the stage allowed them to suspend disbelief in a way that high definition simply did not.

Which proves that some illusions are best left intact …