A father's Inquiries

So once again today was not the day that I decided to take a break from blogging. The weekend has finally arrived and although I'll be doing homework and studying for my Spanish exam the whole time, I'm so grateful for the break. I haven't been home in a couple of weeks so I decided to drop by this weekend; my dad also happens to be off from work this weekend and has been watching movies with me while I do homework tonight.
Watching a movie with my dad is normally a time where my dad sits still for a couple of hours but continues to move his mouth the whole time. Since I've been a film student however it's turned into two hours of questioning. We can't get through a movie together without at least five questions about editing, filming, directing or a combination of all three being asked. I inform my dad each and every time that while I may be a film student I can't answer everything about how every movie is made. There are simply some things that I just don't know.
This usually gets on my last nerve but tonight it made me feel pretty good. My dad is the stereotypical man in the sense that he doesn't always know how to show that he cares and I realized tonight that the merciless onslaught of questions that I can't answer is his way of showing he cares. He wants me to know that he is interested in what I do as a film student and that he thinks what I'm studying is cool and that I'm doing a good job. Sitting through Schindler's List and The Shawshank Redemption may have been a bit tiring on my nerves but in the end I know that it's my dad trying to make conversation with his daughter that he's not to sure how to talk to.
Even when family members are driving us crazy with conversation, questions and just general annoying habits sometimes it helps to sit back and think about how they feel, and that maybe they just want to talk with you and let you know they care. My dad hasn't known how to talk to me since middle school and watching movies is his way of keeping up to date with me and if he's willing to be invested enough in my life to partake in a similar interest then I'll take it. I may not always be in the mood to try and answer his film trivia but it's always nice to know that someone cares that much.