This was an excellent read and there’s so much in here that resonates. Personally, I could never get on with Showgirls, but that really doesn’t matter. What you highlight beautifully is the way in which film and cinema anchors you to a time and place in your life.

The experience you have watching a film, for good or for bad, is indelibly linked to where you are in your life at that moment, something I think you capture so well in this article.

For it’s not just about the film itself, is it? It’s about the experience of watching it, that moment in your life, what you’re doing, who you are, where you are, and the world in which you are living at that moment.

And…

I’m with you on your take on the 90s – it was a defining era for many of us (I started the decade a naive 17-year-old, ended it with a degree, the experience of global travel and soon to be married). The last throes of analogue life, before the internet truly swept in and altered things forever.

Excellent article, really well written. Thanks for taking the time to publish it.