Sunday, June 06, 2004

The World According to Raymond

Buffalo Springfield started a song stanza with "paranoia strikes deep, into your heart it will creep" (first line of the third stanza (?) of the song For What Its Worth). Somehow it's correct. Not in a sense that everybody has to get paranoid once-in-a-while, but I can be quite positive that it can help. In anyway, at least.

I saw George Sluizer's Spoorloos or popularly called The Vanishingin DVD. It tells of a man's search for his missing girlfriend kidnapped by a devlishly clever sociopath. I read somewhere that it was voted as one of the scariest movies to date, to that I concur. It's not your typical goryfest where blood and guts are spilled merely to terrify an audience, but it borders on the reality itself. The scary stuff hits you the moment you push the power of your dvd player and lay down for awhile, thinking that it certainly could happen to anyone.

I don't exactly know the nature of a sociopath except that they purge through the boundaries of the society, living as normal individuals but carry a specific personal grudge. According to Raymond Lemorne (the kidnapper in the film), he's driven by a kind of either emotional or spiritual (or whatever) predestination to commit something that the society notices, be it a crime or a good deed, and he takes pleasure from it.

I'm becoming more paranoid after seeing the movie.

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