| | In Small Doses
I won't lie, i have been disturbingly unhappy lately. But instead of driving somebody else completely insane about it, i decided to seek my own therapy. By administering doses of Scrubs.
Unlike my past reactions towards this delightful series, it actually made me feel worse! First of all, J.D. has become some sort of emotional wreck. Thanks a lot, John Dorian pffft. Elliot has become unbearable annoying i just want to wring her neck.
And then, they killed LaVerne! Which was totally unnecessary. It had no functional input whatsoever to the plot and made me cry so loud the neighbours thought i was turning into a werewolf.
COME ON! If i needed a cry-fest i would watch Grey's Anatomy instead.
So on Friday night when i couldn't sleep, i watched The Pianist.
I really hate these Based on True Story films, they are so painful to watch, but you just cannot peel your eyes away because it has perforated you. Letting your every incomprehensible emotion leak out in this slow, agonizing manner.
And you just have to nail your eyes to the screen and pray for it to have a happy ending, even though you know there may never be one.
At the end of the movie i had this shameful, crystallizing moment that i get everytime i watch a Holocaust movie. That i've gotten more out of it than i've ever did in school, or in the community.
It's kind of like Leslie getting his genius out of Wikipedia more than anywhere else.
As if all that torment, tragedy and torturous reminder of mortality wasn't enough, last night i stayed up watching Schindler's List.
Do you know how much world history we acquire from Malaysian schools in the whole 5 years that we are required to take it as a subject?
I don't either. Probably 5 chapters.
Or less.
It bothers me how we can be so perfectly comfortable knowing next to nothing. Doesn't it make you a little disturbed to realize that when you make conversations with people it doesn't deviate from the topics:
a) the weather
b) Gossip Girl
c) disgusting sex jokes
d) your colossal tank full of self-pity.
Although i approve of clever jokes with or without the sexual innuendo har har, it is not funny when there is just this plain lack of interest amongst so many people. Our minds are just so vacant to these things like the past or politics or global distortion of morality or seemingly pandemic stupidity!
Because we think these things are irrelevant. Oh so what if there was a Holocaust, it's not like that;s going to happen to me anytime soon lalaladila.
There was one very disturbing scene in the movie where the German guards played some folksy tune. And all the children sang along and happily got onto trucks to be led away to be gassed. As they passed their parents they waved and shouted happily. This little boy managed to get away and he hid in a pit of shit. There were already a bunch of children in there, they said to him "Go away, this is our hiding place."
But we don't get it. People don't change. Sure, technology advances. We evolutionarily lose our 3rd molars. But human nature will remain as brutal as it has always been. The Bosnian genocide ended in 1995, what not 20 years ago.
It was a long time ago since cavemen ate each other and raped their sisters. But WWII wasn't so far back now was it? Its survivors are still around today, aren't they?
Ralph Fiennes as the big bad wolf in Schindler's List. I KNOW RIGHT? HE'S VOLDEMORT! He was my favourite character in this movie. Not because i liked him, quite the contrary in fact, i hated him. His character at first made me want to gauge his eyes out and feed them to pigeons. But then made me miserable and sympathetic. And then disgusted. And bothered. And trembled with fear. It was quite extraordinary.
Man will always suffer from gluttony, greed, pride, lust, sloth, wrath and envy. We can never be completely immunised from humanity and its discontents. And the worst crime of all is to be ignorant.
(I think i need to watch happier movies.)
I'm definitely going home next weekend.
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