Wednesday, August 04, 2010

what do we learn from this...?

The other day i posted a video on the youtube from a film, i forget the name of the film but it was some kind of late 80’s made for TV horror thing... utter dross. Well actually now i come to think of it, not utter dross. Not utter dross at all. It was one of those afternoons where i watch a film only half  paying attention and yet some how its imagery lodged in my brain like dirty shrapnel. Later, after i’ve scribbled out this crud i may well have to find out what film it was, when it was made, who made it, you know, all those pointless details nobody really gives a fuck about.... The point is a small portion of the film involved a boy getting covered in a blanket that seems to come alive by itself then being pushed, by the said blanket, into a washing machine, and decapitated. Unique. Unique i thought, as i rewound it and watched it again. So sort of out of place with its utter random viciousness... So i snipped the clip out and stuck it up on the youtube... that, i thought would be the end of it. But no! a bit later, i think it was the same day, i gets this email informing me someone had dropped down a comment on the clip, i can’t remember the exact wording of the comment, it was something like “what do we learn form this...??” . Profound! i was plunged headlong into deep thought. This question, in relation to the clip was staggering. Is staggering. A boy is pushed by a ‘magic’ blanket into a washing machine which then cuts the little buggers head clean off... what DO we learn? I was at a loss. So i’ve sort of stepped back and given it a bit of thought, and i came up with this:.....(see next post)

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