Can a stupid (as in, intellectually limited; not a characterological assessment) actor successfully portray an intellectually gifted character?
Why, in this time of science, our current obsession with the supernatural? We have several television programs in which people talk with the dead, or attain special abilities, or are destined to save the world.
What do we seek with these diversions?
Sleep. Dreams. Why do we have these second, secret lives?
What really does make humans different from the other animals? Are we different from the other animals?
Why do my dogs love me? Why does this matter?
A certain smell, a singular quality of light -- and I am dropped, for a small second, into some moment from my past.
Was that a real moment? Is it manufactured from the present?
Is this just a spark, misfiring, in this mystery of a brain?
What will happen next?
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I think supernaturals and superheroes are a reaction to media consumers who feel powerless by being told about all kinds of things they can'tact on. To say that they are helpless and create an unreal person who can act relieves guilt, and obligation to act.
Dogs? Cuz they're fuzzy. ;)
Posted by: Pearl | 20 September 2007 at 12:13 PM