Film Father Explains Life to Boy

This morning I overheard Tommer explaining a life issue that means so much to him to his small son.

Sullivan: Daddy! Get rid of those two lines on the tv screen!

Tommer: Oh! I can't do that, Sullivan because this is what is called letterbox.

Sullivan: Just get rid of them!

Tommer: (getting excited- presumably because this is a moment he has waited for to pass on his particular fatherly wisdom) No! No! You see, whenyou go to a movie theater the screen is big and rectangular.

Sullivan: (drifting away) yeah, bigger...

Tommer: And the TV screen is a square.

Sullivan: and it's smaller

Tommer: yes, but it is the shape that is important, if you try to fit a rectangle into a square you cut off part of the picture. So letterbox is good, because it means you are getting to see the whole picture...

Sullivan: Have you seen my Goldilocks toy?

Tommer: What Goldilocks toy?

Someday, I am sure Sullivan will spout the same piece of information to his friends who will be cinema dolts and Tommer will reap his reward for having explained the facts of cinematic life to his young and impressionable son.

But for now, the search for Goldilocks continues.