On a movie and a joke
Watched the horror movie The Apparition (2012) yesterday, a mild horror movie that I can’t really recommend. But a few thoughts.
- The movie was critically panned, But one professor when I was looking at colleges my last year of high school had an entire course in the English department of his college focused on what you can learn from bad poetry.
- The main part of this movie’s plot is a rather plodding haunted house story, but the start and ending are more interesting. The start is about three college students trying to contact the supernatural, but mistakenly the experiment ends up killing the female member of the group.
- The movie could be an oblique allegory for sexual assault and/or other violence and its haunting effects. It begins with a woman dying and ends with one of the main characters, a young woman, being groped by anonymous male hands and possibly suffocated.
- This film reminds me of the decades-old novel Ghost Story, adapted into a movie, about a deceased woman whose spirit haunts a group of older men many years after her death.
A joke
“I identify as a billionaire. Why isn’t the money in my bank account?”