Granny shares a nostalgic moment with her grandson Buddy, reflecting on her lifelong love for cinema and the escapism it provided during her youth. She uses the mythical land of Shangri-La to illustrate the wonder of the movies while grounding the conversation in their shared working-class reality.
GRANNY: If God wanted me d’ see a flyin car. I’d a been born with blinkin wings. Yer love yer films don’t yer? I was a great one for the pictures when I was your age. I used to think you could climb right inside the screen and visit all those strange places you saw. Like that one in that film...what
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