Seán Moncrieff: Towards the end, on two separate occasions, I felt a shudder run through me
‘When the cinema lights came up, we all hugged, and I wondered why, on this day, the magic worked for me too’'Herself is an arm-grabber: anything involving high levels of tension or violence and I’m left with bruises, while envying her level of immersion.' Photograph: iStock
We agreed that we both preferred to go into cinema number one – it still had a big screen – and what we saw was the original Alien movie. When it was over, we staggered out of the building, and for about an hour afterwards we barely spoke. About 20 minutes in, I noticed that the kids had fallen silent. An hour in, Daughter Number Four reached over to take my hand. Herself was never so restricted. Her face shone with tears
A couple of weeks ago we were stuck in the house while Storm Ashley raged outside. It threatened to uproot the elaborate Halloween spiders’ web we had attached to the front of the house and wrap itself around any passing pedestrian. So, to avoid neighbourly rage, we brought Daughter Number Four to the pictures.
Herself was never so restricted. When the lights came up, her face shone with tears. We all hugged, and I wondered why, on this day, the magic worked for me too. Perhaps it was the storm. As we left, the young men in front of us remained sitting: waiting for one of them to stop bawling his eyes out.
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