Hey ladies,
An important flick to see: "Nebraska."
I've noticed the zombie motif is popular these days. My wife loves "The Walking Dead" and all things zombie. "The Walking Dead" is so popular in Korea that only hours after a new episode is aired in the States a Hangul-subtitled version comes out in South Korea. They love it! What my wife doesn't understand (most people don't understand) is that the joke is on us - we are the zombies.
Want to see a real zombie movie? "Nebraska" is the movie for you (no Brad Pitt .. not once!)
"Nebraska" (shot completely in black and white) is the story of an old man, whose mind has been softened by years of drink, who believes he's won a million dollars, and sets off on a quest to claim his prize. Everyone who sees his "winning ticket", stamped "Winner" "Winner", knows it's only a come-on from a magazine retailer fishing for customers. However, the old man remains convinced that he's won and takes off (on foot if he has to) to get his million bucks. The old man's son sees the reality of his father's obsession but his son, being the only non-zombie in the flick, decides to help his father on his last, great quest. By taking his father to Lincoln, Nebraska the son hopes to show his father that he hasn't won anything at all, to bring his father back to reality and perhaps reconnect with a father he's been permanently separated from by a bottle of liquor. Along the journey the father and son quest team meet real zombies: their own family.
The family, met halfway to Lincoln, is found in the town of Hawthorne staring, unblinkingly, at televisions. The zombies, however, immediately begin to stir when they become convinced that their relative is now a rich man .. and they want their cut of the cake. It's in this interaction that the son sees something he's never seen before, his father is a good man who has lost his way due in-part to his concern for others.
Why am I sticking this post in "Transgender" rather than "Movies"? Because it occurred to me, upon waking this morning, that transgenders/transsexuals are not zombies. We are not sitting idly by waiting for life to give us something we are too lazy to ask for. We are asking the universe for what we want, moving boldly forward to an unknown destination (scary!), driven by passion, excitement, beauty (dare I day "fun"). We do this knowing that there is no monetary reward here. Just the opposite, we could easily lose it all. Like all artists, we are passionately working on something beautiful. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is the art itself .. if it sells, it sells. If it doesn't, it doesn't.
We are not the zombies, and in this world that's saying a lot.
Kudos to us.
