Quiet, please

I should stop watching movies at the Director’s Club. Two words: free popcorn. Which I couldn’t resist.

But there I was again at the Director’s Club munching on popcorn even before “A Quiet Place: Day One” could start.

This is morphing into my next hard habit to break as the high-carb popcorn becomes my main motivation now in watching movies. Aside from the chance to have a good sleep, that is.

I was usually falling asleep while watching movies lately, and the Director’s Club’s Lazy Boy Chairs would surely make me sleep pa more. Pair that with the “quiet” in “A Quiet Place” and sure na ang zzzzz.

But this movie kept me awake! Wow. Miracles do happen.

It’s supposed to be a horror movie but it turned out to be a drama film for me. I didn’t expect to see the Fentanyl box. Whew. And then, there were more. Piano. Books. Writing. Pizza.

Mama was a pianist. She played the piano every morning after breakfast. That was the daily ritual at home.

As for me, I took piano lessons and went through piano recitals.

I love to read, and books have made me become a part of other stories and other lives.

I love to write, and that hobby has evolved into this column.

As for the pizza, there was that night way back in 2009, when my sis Joan and I were going home from the hospital where Mama was confined. We decided to drop by a pizza place at a mall here in Cagayan de Oro where I ordered a solo pizza without thinking. Solo as in good for one.

My mind was always busy thinking of Mama then, it had no more space for anything else. And then, my order arrived. Joan then said, Gi-video unta nako imong reaction. She was laughing so hard, while I was staring at the smallest pizza I had ever seen. I had no idea it would be that cute. Unsa to, miniature?

Anyway, I didn’t watch “A Quiet Place” and “A Quiet Place Part 2,” but there I was, watching their prequel. Why? Because “curiosity killed the cat,” as the saying goes. Oops! Spoiler alert. The cat is alive.

Expect the year’s Hollywood blockbusters to be shown once it’s summer in the U.S. Coming soon to a theater near you are “Despicable Me 4,” “Fly Me to the Moon,” “Twisters,” “Deadpool & Wolverine,” “Borderlands,” “Transformers One,” “The Union,” “Alien: Romulus,” “Blink Twice,” “Wolfs,” “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” “Reagan,” and so on and so forth. Free popcorn pa more.

But if there’s one movie the woman of a certain age—is that me?—should watch, I highly recommend “Wolfs.” Which stars Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

Movies are like travel—they both bring me to new places while reality waits at home.

And the spring cleaning continues to be a part of that reality.

Yes, the spring cleaning that began during the pandemic lockdowns. It has been three years of emulating Marie Kondo: Does this spark joy?