Wrong Turn
Just finished watching this movie called Wrong Turn, it's just another low-budget movie about cannibals. During the movie, I kept thinking… should we –the viewers- feel sorry for the characters who have died –and now being chopped up- or.. the other characters that are trying to survive – currently hiding under the bed!-
Hmm… Sure some would try to compromise and go for the impartial response of "Both, …I feel sorry for both characters", and that's fair… yet it seems somewhat of a shallow answer for someone who obviously did not put themselves in the situation.
I try to imagine myself in the situation –and I can only imagine!- being hunted down by cannibals who have just 'eaten' my friends and who have me next on their menu… what would I'd rather be? The "victim", or the "survivor"? hmm... I would definitely prefer to be lying in a pool of my blood and being eaten by a punch of deranged flee-bags, than to actually to keep on running and running from their blades!
However that may sound to you, I would not think of myself as a coward, but as a survivor. How? … okay, do you think that those who have "survived" are actually living? That the next day they would get in to their cars and ride to work ? … think again! Final question, do you prefer a slow death, or a quick death? ...How does that relate? I tell you…
I figure that, having a knife slitting my throat, I would not care what happens to me afterwards. Let them have a big orgy fest with my guts; I.Do.Not.Care! Why? Because I'm Dead! And this mortal body means nothing to me anymore!
But what if I did survive? …hmm… I would kill myself everyday, whether by nightmares, paranoia, phobias… you name it. I think, at some point, I would just kill myself –literally. It’s a matter of how much can you handle, not how much you *think* you can handle.
I choose to fool everyone but myself, still I don't think I can play hero for the rest of my life cos I know I would eventually crack… and higher power knows I can only pretend for so long!
Hmm… Sure some would try to compromise and go for the impartial response of "Both, …I feel sorry for both characters", and that's fair… yet it seems somewhat of a shallow answer for someone who obviously did not put themselves in the situation.
I try to imagine myself in the situation –and I can only imagine!- being hunted down by cannibals who have just 'eaten' my friends and who have me next on their menu… what would I'd rather be? The "victim", or the "survivor"? hmm... I would definitely prefer to be lying in a pool of my blood and being eaten by a punch of deranged flee-bags, than to actually to keep on running and running from their blades!
However that may sound to you, I would not think of myself as a coward, but as a survivor. How? … okay, do you think that those who have "survived" are actually living? That the next day they would get in to their cars and ride to work ? … think again! Final question, do you prefer a slow death, or a quick death? ...How does that relate? I tell you…
I figure that, having a knife slitting my throat, I would not care what happens to me afterwards. Let them have a big orgy fest with my guts; I.Do.Not.Care! Why? Because I'm Dead! And this mortal body means nothing to me anymore!
But what if I did survive? …hmm… I would kill myself everyday, whether by nightmares, paranoia, phobias… you name it. I think, at some point, I would just kill myself –literally. It’s a matter of how much can you handle, not how much you *think* you can handle.
I choose to fool everyone but myself, still I don't think I can play hero for the rest of my life cos I know I would eventually crack… and higher power knows I can only pretend for so long!
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