Growing up back home, movies were a treat, a rare treat. Rarely would our theaters show any good movies. But every once in a blue moon, a great movie would come along and my father would insist on getting the family to go. As far as I remember, we never missed a Disney production. I remember being completely mesmerized with Snow White and Seven dwarfs, Lady and the Tramp, Cinderella and and..... well that is it. I knew then I was hooked on to the fairy tales, and the vivid pictures from Disney. The colors so crisp and so 'correct'. It is hard for me to describe in words the feel of pure color and all appropriately mixed to produce perhaps the world's best combinations, contrasts and hues and saturation....... but then I am getting passionately technical and horribly sentimental.

WHY THIS Nostalgia? Well, it is October, and not just any October 2006, and I have waited about 9 years for this. Well, I have waited for many things (sometimes patiently and sometimes frustrated) for 9-10 years. The Platinum release of my second¹ most favorite Disney movie........ The Little Mermaid. It was released on October 6, needless to say it was on my wish list and arrived at my doorstep this Saturday. I don't know whether the wait for 9 years was more aggravating, or was this past one week.  But like I said the wait was over......

Why do I love it so much? (in random order)
* Of course the colors...... something about under the sea, blues-greens and fantastic colors of corals, shells and sea creatures (notably some are horrid). Colors play, perhaps the most important role in these movies, and they convey feelings far far more, and in more depth than any words ever can.
* Oh.... the music.... & lyrics.... oh man! It is haunting.
* Sebastian and Scuttle.....
* Perhaps most touching, most intense moment for me (call me a sentimental old fool)...... is "Part of Your World"

Pssttt: Saturday night became a tissue box and wine night..... and Little Mermaid. Watched with a full box of tissues..... hmmmm.... have always watched this alone, maybe because it is too embarrassing to admit (forget share) that I cry buckets in some movies (read: most disney). But, there I said it, I do cry at movies.

¹The first is hands down without a doubt.......Beauty and the Beast......