Put in another Tape

I viewed the trailer for The Road, knew it wasn’t going to be a film I would enjoy, but sat through it anyway because I was already at the DGA and it was the next film showing after A Serious Man.

There was one scene that was so disturbing. SPOILER! But you shouldn’t see this movie anyway, so keep reading. He opens the cellar of a stranger’s house that is locked, and all these half bloodied missing limbs of tortured bodies start coming toward him and his child. The fact that I am even writing about this is giving the scene too much energy when, to begin with, it never even should have been in my subconscious.

Someone once said to me, if you are thinking of something negative, it’s like watching a bad movie. Why don’t you take out the tape and just put in another tape? Whoever said that must have had more control over their subconscious than I do.

When I was living in NYC, a guy walked out of Hannibal at the part where he eats a brain. He said he just didn’t need to see that. Ten years later, I now understand that.

Life is just too short for bad movies and quasi friends. I had dinner with a sort of friend. Let me just say, if it is not a good friend, your food doesn’t taste as good. I sat there thinking it would have been better if I had eaten alone.