verisimilitude

ok, so last night i decided to rent i am legend, with a salt & pepper haired will smith (which by the way, now i see how salt & pepper hair can make someone look extremely good, or extremely old)...what a piece of work, although it was hardly anything like the novel by richard matheson, i can see how the whole craving blood and sensitive to uv light gave it some similarities...ok, so we are all made up of cells, cells which if damaged beyond repair for whatever reason are typically removed from the body by apoptosis, unfortunately because of what mankind has become through evolution (evolution = tobacco, chemicals, radiation, bottled drinks, pesticides, etc etc) there are now cells that avoid apoptosis all together and even begin to multiply and grow beyond control sometimes invading other parts of our body's and eventually killing us all together...CANCER...although in the movie we found a cure, the cure injection was so lethal it eventually started killing off all humans and led to a near demise of our being here on earth...after watching the movie and giving it much thought, i don't think we will ever find a cure for cancer, and as we continue to evolve as we have been, i think watching this movie is not too far from what could be in our not too distant future

assisted living

Over the weekend i decided to run to the bijou theater to watch The Savages...ok, so i know that everyone has had at least one encounter/visit with an assisted living/nursing home so ill spare you the vivid description on how they make you feel or what they look like or how they smell...The Savages is an awesome movie that will make you laugh off your seat while trying to wipe the tears out of your eyes to make sure you don't miss another scene. The black comedy helped me realize how selfish we can become as adult beings and lie to ourselves at times in order to make ourselves fell better about something we have done...The actors (Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney) are brilliant in this feature and although the movie was centered around their father who was suffering from dementia and the dilemma of putting him in a "home" the writing/acting was so brilliantly done that you couldn't help but laugh and cry with the siblings and put yourself in their position...I don't think i ever thought of putting my grandparents in a "home" nor do i think i would consider putting my parents in such a place...I think that we as humans need to understand that aging is an ultimate part of life and accepting it is the first step...I think this movie was a true inspiration and helps you see how to put together pieces to an uncomfortable/dysfunctional family situation & make it work gracefully.