Cinematypes (Susan Allen Toth)

According to the short biography that was italicized before the main article itself, Susan Allen Toth was born in Ames, Iowa, in 1940. By now, she’s maybe 71, or 72 years old. So when she wrote Cinematypes, most probably when she was still dating some guys or maybe a couple of years after that because she can still recall the events, the movies that she saw are now considered classic. I even do not know any of the movies that were included in her article.

But it was not really the movies in her piece that I was interested in. It was the account itself. My, her dates were quite funny for me – they were all so different from each other, and the movies that they liked to watch were also boxing. Well, I was sad for her because she did not end up with any of those three men who took her to three different types of movies.

In this story, Toth admits that her passion is for old Technicolor musicals and films because here, “the men and women always like each other”. I guess this summarizes her experience: in her three dates, they ended up going opposite ways, and no one really seemed to have had the intention of building a really deeper relationship with her, although she appreciated each one of those men. Technicolor was the type of story that she wanted to end up herself, because it would be where the man she likes would like her in return.