A Movie To Remember

Recently, I went to Denver to visit my daughter. It was a good visit. I brought my best self there and enjoyed her company thoroughly. 

One night, after she went home, I was still antsy and decided to go see a movie. Jurassic World was ok but, good or bad (mostly not that great) I’ve seen them all because of falling in love with the first in the series.  The Cinemark theater was a little sketchy, somewhat run down but I got my popcorn and enjoyed. 

The next day I was telling my girl about the movie. She was quiet and then said, “I probably should have told you mom, that is the theater is where the Batman shooting took place 12 years ago. I sat there stunned, without words. After a while, I realized not only did I go to the same theater complex but in the exact theater where the killing spree took place. 

Questions entered my mind. How in the world did Century Theaters decide to keep that horrible place open? How is it that they think it’s ok to pretend like it did not happen? Why would they not put something inside that building memorializing the people who were killed that day, by name, like it mattered? They had lives and stories. I cannot explain exactly but I would have liked to have known that I sat in a renovated room where 12 people, ranging from 6 to 51, were killed. 

I would have liked my heart to know as I sat there, to wish the survivors full and happy lives. Perhaps it makes no sense, but it does to my heart.