Star Wars is a franchise whose central theme is that your child may not grow up to be the person you want him or her to be. I suddenly realised that it wasn’t the space nerd who was convulsing with wonderment. ![]() What a lovely thing that is.’ But then something strange happened. I looked at this man and thought, ‘ahh, a space nerd on the cusp of public orgasm. He had a dummy’s grin slapped across his yap, apparently oblivious to the violent sway of the scrum. I could feel him physically shaking with excitement. My arm was pressed against the arm of a young blonde man stood directly next to me. ![]() I waited in the midst of this huddle, idly allowing the film to percolate in the mind. ![]() A mass of bodies, still moist from the rain outside and pressed against one another, quickly formed in the lobby, with each individual squeezing to the front towards the big table of phones. Flash forward 136 minutes, and as the silky blue Franklin Gothic typeface of the closing credits crashed on to the screen (accompanied with hearty applause), a mad dash to the exit ensued.
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