Fri 19 Dec 2008
Why do I keep getting ads in the mail and coupons for cigarettes from Camel? C’mooooon. Quit wasting your money.
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Today I am making kvass. It’s a small beer that’s made in Russia. They sell it out of big tanks on the sidewalk and there was an article in the Chicago Tribune about it saying “Soda pop made from rye bread sounds about as appetizing as chewing on anold shoe.” Well, I happen to like it, although I have to admit I don’t know what the real stuff tastes like. Mine is bubbly and smells like beer and rye bread. I’m hoping the house is not too cold this time of year.
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First they light the man’s hat on fire and burn his face a bit. Then they make him walk across broken glass. They shoot in him in the forehead with a BB gun. They have him hang onto a rope strung up in the air and then cut the end and let him slam against the brick wall. They hit him across the chest with a crowbar. Imagine you’re feeling that. Sound funny?
Why did I laugh at Home Alone 1? If I had watched all those things happen to someone in prison I would have been aghast. Why, why, why?
I’m starting to wonder why I laugh at people getting hurt. Is it just because I am not thinking? Or are there other reasons?
Posted by Bonnie under Uncategorized
December 19th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
A wise older man once told me that what people laugh at most in movies is when someone breaks God’s law and gets away with it. Since then I have taken a little more notice and I find he was pretty accurate. I happen to think the movie industry does not do this by accident but it’s done on purpose to condition us to sin/immorality. I’ve seen the movie you mentioned and I will admit it was very funny, but when I think about it, it really shouldn’t be funny at all, if one of my little brothers shot someone in the head with a bb gun I would promptly spank them. We really should be horrified at what we see on TV.
December 19th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
You’re 21 now you can buy all the beer you want.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! LOL!
Ha! Ha!
How about that for an intelligent comment.
December 19th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Thanks Chris, for your comment. I’m going to be thinking about that when I watch movies, I’m guessing!
Haha w/ Jim. Yeah, I thought about that recently. Good point. Except I won’t buy all I want because I don’t want to offend anyone
December 19th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
– A child at home alone, about to be pounced on by strangers, is in great peril. What if Hannah were left by herself and several men tried to break in? The extremity of this setting then allows the humorists to engage in extreme physical humor to counter it. A moral balance is preserved.
– However, special effects is not really physical humor. When the old movie comedians in the 1920s jumped off and on a moving car, or pretended to hit each other with hammers, much of the humor was really awe for their great dexterity.
– Are we laughing at the supposed pain of the characters? Or at the child’s ingenuity? (I have never seen ‘Home Alone’, by the way.)
– So much of humor is simply surprise or surreality. If then follows something odious, it was not wrong of us to have laughed — we have been tricked. But we’d be sensible not to be tricked again if we can help it.
– When I was small we were not allowed to watch ‘Tom and Jerry’ on Grandma’s TV. Mother pondered aloud why children are so tickled by cruelty. Yet I feel sure we were tickled by the ingenuity of the mechanics of it — and it was obvious from the way the characters reacted that none of their fates were more painful than a ball bouncing off somebody. “It isn’t real, Mother!”
– These were just some random, unhelpful thoughts.