Life Goes to the Movies
“—Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Pertinent Movie Quote Wall High-angle crane shot: the illicit lovers holding hands as they climb up the steep driveway toward a cluster of red brick buildings perched on a grassy acropolis overlooking the wide, silent Hudson River.
Burn in: April, 1984.
At first they don’t notice the walls, then they’re everywhere: walls of stone, brick, metal and cinderblock, some crowned with razor wire, others spangled with institutional ivy. Surrounding... them.
“Are they to keep crazy folk in or sane people out?” Venus wonders.
“Both, I suppose.”
They pass a miniature wooden lighthouse ringed with tulips in full bloom. Planted among the tulips, a varnished wooden sign says: DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER VETERAN’S ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER A lovely day, the sky a blue bowl dolloped with whipped clouds. It’s spring, but with a wintry nip to the air. A chilled breeze stirs the buds of a copper beech tree. The beech trees are everywhere, with asphalt sidewalks winding around them and benches parked in their shade, one bench per tree.MoreLess
Burn in: April, 1984.
At first they don’t notice the walls, then they’re everywhere: walls of stone, brick, metal and cinderblock, some crowned with razor wire, others spangled with institutional ivy. Surrounding... them.
“Are they to keep crazy folk in or sane people out?” Venus wonders.
“Both, I suppose.”
They pass a miniature wooden lighthouse ringed with tulips in full bloom. Planted among the tulips, a varnished wooden sign says: DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER VETERAN’S ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER A lovely day, the sky a blue bowl dolloped with whipped clouds. It’s spring, but with a wintry nip to the air. A chilled breeze stirs the buds of a copper beech tree. The beech trees are everywhere, with asphalt sidewalks winding around them and benches parked in their shade, one bench per tree.MoreLess
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