There are some minor spoilers ahead for Train Dreams, which you can watch now with a Netflix subscription.
I was lucky enough to know my great-grandmother. I was a teenager when she died in the 1990s. After watching Train Dreams last week, I spoke with a colleague here at CinemaBlend, and she brought up how remarkable it was that Robert (played by Joel Edgerton) transitioned from a simple 19th-century life to witnessing John Glenn's spaceflight on television. Since then, I’ve been thinking a lot about my great-grandmother, what she saw in her life, and how it wasn’t completely unlike what Robert experienced.
