First Film

My grandmother lived in an old farmhouse in Westbrook Maine. She had served with the royal Canadian medical expedition in the great war. My grandfather had been a doctor for the allies. Her house carried mementos of their meeting. zeppelin debris, helmets, bayonets, and a mural of a french landscape in their bed room. I never met my grandfather, but in 1960 my grandmother pulled me into the living room to watch THE 7 SAMURAI on TV. Somehow I was able to read the subtitles. It was the first film to send me on the road to ruin and I've never looked back.