I Finally Saw the End of the Movie!
When I was a kid in the 60’s, my brother, sister, and I started watching the movie, The Boy With Green Hair. About halfway through the movie, my sweet staunch, grandmother came into the room, turned off the television, and said it was time for cookies. This picture of grandmother turning off the movie seems to have affected my sister and I in similar ways. Years later, when I mentioned my grandmother turning off the movie and wondering what happened to the boy with green hair, my sister said she also remembered that day and wondered what happened in the rest of the story. While searching for the movie, I learned there was a lot of controversy around showing posters of war orphans and suffering children. Did my grandmother turn off the movie because of the anti-war message or because we watched an hour of television? Makes me wonder, but it was probably too much television. With the movie’s new release in 2023, I was able to find it streaming on Prime Video and rented...