Tonight: Hank

      Situated along the route from my dorm room to my internship is a small, stoic-looking independent movie theater. I have never been in there, but I always glance up at the titles on the facade to see what is currently playing. They seem to have one movie every few days, and they are always movies that I have never heard of. One time the facade just said "Golf". There was a huge line down the street for that one.
     But my favorite was the day when the featured movie was something called "Hank III". Once again, I could only guess what it was about. Based on the use of bare Roman numerals in place of an actual subtitle, though, it was clear that this movie belonged to the genre of blockbuster action thrillers. The kind with more explosions than dialogue, and lots of leather jackets, and trailers narrated by chain smokers. It clearly followed the phenomenal success of "Hank I" and "Hank II". In fact, I imagine that it might even have been the conclusion of the explosive trilogy of mind-searing films:

                                                    Hank I: Hank

                                                    Hank II: The Revenge of Hank

                                                    Hank III: The Hankening

       I kind of regret not going to see it. But on the other hand, I'm not sure I would have survived that degree of Hank.