Keeping with the shedding of old skins, all my preconceived notions of how nasty Britt Border Agents can be evaporated after the Agent asked me if he had seen any of my films - I put down as my profession "filmmaker". I told him about Prisoner's in Time, a film I co-wrote with my father about a WWII POW from the death march in Kanchananburi who had been tortured and was possesed by the idea of fiding the translator whose he heard during the sessions - which included waterboarding! A Japanese (and American) favorite.
He said he had seen it!
And then we veered to a conversation on the power of morbid stories to capture our imagination. Brought by my mention of Shaheed and Suicide Bombers - a script the BBC commissioned a few years back. He mentioned one of his favorite TV series from long ago"Black Box" on the retrieval of Black boxes from plane crashes. Very appropriate I thought coming from an Airport Border Agent!
Unto Malaga!
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