elephant girl?

Taking a break from apartment hunting on the internet, I looked for The Elephant Man on youtube last night, and stayed up till morning watching clips of the movie. Afterwards I just sat, perfectly still in front of my computer for a good 10 minutes with a million questions running through my head. I can't help thinking how tragic this story is.

It reminded me alot of this film called Mask, (not The Mask tough) this movie back in the 80s starring Cher, about this single mother trying to protect and raise her psychically deformed son as a normal kid. This boy, born with a disease that caused him to have an abnormally large head and a very misshaped face structure which looked like he was wearing a mask for trick or treating, or something, hence the title of the movie. But as the movie reveals itself you'd understand the title doesn't solely suggest the kid's physicality but it's also about the mother, and what she's struggling hard to hide from the world and her own son.

I had a discussion with my best friend, if we happen to meet someone like the elephant man, or say someone with a disease or you know they are dying, would you make a conscious effort to be nice to them? as opposed to meeting a person on a regular basis?

I know the first thing I would feel is sympathy. And even though I try to be nice to everyone I meet, I would inevitably be extra nice to that person - out of feeling fear, or feeling sorry- and I don't know if that's a good thing.

I asked her if gender would have anything to do with it. Like most movies I loved about the neglected, I always noticed these lone wolves happen to be male. It made me wonder if they were female, would the story be any different? And is it easier to sympathize for men with that situation then it is with a woman with that condition? If so, why? why is our society condemned with this sad view? and am I supposed to be angry at people's personal choices and tendencies?

I'm not trying to unearth an ugly betty situation here, and I don't know if its a bit post-feminist, but I am very curious and it's very fascinating to me. I think it's a subject matter I want to keep digging in and create into..

why do i have to desire so many things?

I wish I was some average girl who worked at a logistics company from 9 to 5. Or something.

I want to unscrew my head and put out the smoke in a fridge.

go speed racer go!

I went looking for this since they're releasing an American movie version of the series. By no means am I anticipating on watching the movie, I mean, look at the trailer!

But how damn brutal was that for a cartoon!
As a kid the only thing i noticed was
a). how ridiculously fast and annoying the dialogues were,
b). too fast i didn't understand a word of the storyline and
c). I like the monkey.
Next thing you know speed racer kicks every bad guy there is blocking his way and shoots himself to the finishing line of the race every single ending of the show. As to how he succeeds every time, truly a mystery beckoned to leave you in shock and awe.

What i did understood are the giant mouths hung open in mid-air when they are in shock. I mean its a fantastic expression. It's this giant `O`, it reminds you of those faces in a carnival game where the objective is to throw in a ball through the mouth. It happens repeatedly in the episodes even over the most irrelevant things. Or how they run in only two movements every 3 frames or something. But its an 70's anime, so its forgivable.

But how is it i didn't notice this guy brushes off other cars on the road and lets them blow up into Nagasaki bomb with ease and no guilt at all?! unbelievable! Hey dude, how about teaching children to win honestly huh?!
Come to think of it most of my favorite childhood cartoons are extremely violent. Tom and jerry for instance! goodness. That cartoon is non-stop violent.
I was thinking of showing my niece my favorite cartoons but now that I've been noticing how ridiculously heartless the stuff on tv are right now, I'm having second thoughts.

I'm scared...