And so I laughed.

I was going through one of the video game forums I post on, can’t remember which one now, and found this picture:

I’m a sucker for these stupid pictures, they always crack me up. Anyway, only reason I’m posting that is ‘cos my ‘mission statement’ from my first post said that I’d be using this blog to post cool shit I found on the internet and since then I kinda, well, haven’t been doing that. I guess it evolved into something else, which I’m more comfortable with, but I wanted to prove to myself that I hadn’t lost sight of what started this thing off.

I’m keeping it real.

Elsewhere, had a few more dreams, involving vampires, prisons, Jerusalem, helicopters and those “taxis” that are actually just two-seater carts drawn by some poor bastard running his arse off for a living. Still questing to get myself to do a reality check in a dream though.

The man-flu, not sure if that’s coming or going, I do know it’s sort of blocking my ears up and making everything a little quieter, which I don’t remember happening before, but it freaks me out when I get used to it, forget that they’re stuffed up, then one of them pops and everything suddenly sounds clearer.

Aaaaand, last of all, I saw Gone, Baby, Gone and loved the hell out of it. I hadn’t realised it was such a long film though, I remember thinking it was drawing to a close at one point (if you’ve seen it you probably know when I’m talking about, and anyone who hasn’t, run away from here quickly ‘cos I’m breaking out the **SPOILER** tag!). I was really taken with it because of the choice he has to make at the end, wondering what I would’ve done in his situation. In a lot of films where someone has to make a difficult choice, it’s usually pretty easy to see what the hero will do, because he’s supposed to make the most noble decision, the one we ourselves would make if we were the best versions of ourselves, in an ideal world. I’m reasonably sure that the percentage of people who would actually make the noble choice if presented with it in the real would drop considerably, some opting for the easier choice – i.e. if Neo had decided he didn’t wanna take his girlfriend and go sacrifice themselves for the majority.

My point is, with Gone, Baby, Gone, I don’t think the noble choice is as clear-cut as it usually is. Those people did what they did for the good of the little girl, and she really would have been way better off with her adopted family. On the flip-side, Patrick gave his word that he’d find out what happened to Amanda, that he’d do everything within his power to bring her back if he could – promises he’d made to the girl’s aunt, a much more postive female influence in the girl’s life than her mother. The problem there being that, by doing so, the girl goes back to what will mostly likely be a less than ideal life. To sum up, he can be noble in the sense that he’s sticking to a strict moral code, which is what he does, or he can be noble and abandon that moral code and take the very good chance that she’ll lead a better life if he simply doesn’t take any action.

Anyway, that’s enough rambling.