Movies
Dad was a card. I never met him. He died before the movie began.
— Tom Baxter ‧ The Purple Rose of Cairo
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A funny, slightly odd line: the speaker calls his father a card, meaning a colorful character, yet says they never met because the father died before the movie began. It plays with the idea of a life that only exists inside a story's boundaries.
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