My Indian movie marathon
I have just finished my third movie of the weekend. 15 Park Avenue. Reality versus delusional schizophrenic's existence. Ok the movie is more than that but what got me was the parrallels between the reality of the majority and reality according to schizophrenic. And all I could think is, what if there is a twist and everybody else is wrong and the schizophrenic is right. I kept looking at all the characters in the film and imagining how it would be if they were all living in their particular brand of delusions.
It's like that quote from Woody Allen, what if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dreams?
I also think I heard this in a spider man episode.
Sometimes at work, I like to pretend I am living a fabulously exciting life as a wedding planner in New York City.
Sometimes when I talk to my parents, the boyfriend is the proper christian mallu boy they have always imagined I would marry
Sometimes when I am driving, I am actually sitting next to George Clooney and about to receive an Oscar.
Sigh.
What if, as Mr. Allen goes to say, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?"
2 comments:
Yes, I get this. Weirdly enough, I wondered yesterday if I was really a lurching zombie in a city where Armageddon has come and gone, hunting down prey and eating human flesh, grinning crazily while I did it...and maybe my brain just THINKS I'm living a regular life...(This happened after I saw the DVD cover for George Romero's Land of the Dead)
MJ.
Oh Thank God.
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