The Comfort of Not Knowing
Frankly, I wasn’t sure how to put this across. It almost felt like a flaw! This need to know the ending before it happens. But then I wondered, what if others do this too? Do they just laugh and move on, or do they ever try to change? Over the weekend, my husband suggested we watch The Glass Onion – A Knives Out Mystery . He’d already seen it the day before and said he didn’t mind watching it again with me. That itself felt like a glowing review. Who watches a suspense movie back-to-back unless it’s very good? So, we started watching. The kids were asleep (which meant the ice cream was entirely ours. No sharing required), and 45 minutes in, we both decided to call it a night. We blamed it on exhaustion. The “tired young parents” excuse. (Not because we’re old!) But here’s where it gets embarrassing. Instead of reading a book before bed, my nightly habit, I ended up reading the movie’s entire plot on Wikipedia. T he entire plot of a suspense movie! The next morning, when I tried wa...