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Originally Posted by SNR

It's astounding.

She's in her late 20s. I don't think she was of the age where the Wizard of Oz would be a rerun movie on TV all the time, but her parents were definitely TV and movie watchers. Had a nice little VHS collection growing up. Surely they would have exposed her to that movie at some point.

And if they didn't, you'd think as an amateur movie historian/scholar one might read about how groundbreaking the film was, and then take the time to go see it in order to understand and grasp the points being made about it in the writing.

She watched Birth of a Nation that way. Told me about it. "I'm watching The Birth of a Nation" she said. "Why?"

"Because I haven't seen it yet."

She's seen that movie MULTIPLE times now. Not because she likes it, but just because she thinks that kind of shit is interesting. It fascinates her what made the movie so enriching to those early generations of movie goers.

Has never. ****ing. Seen. The. ****ing. Wizard. Of. ****ing. Oz.

Unbelievable.

I'm not sure our daughter has ever seen the Wizard of Oz. My wife and I are both terrified by that movie. Freaking flying monkeys. Oh hell no.