Allegory indeed? A meteorite crashing Russia’s Ural
Mountains. An An asteroid plunging from the galaxy 10000
miles from our minor planet Earth, almost in the same motion, the same day.
What hath make of this
coincidence”?
II
The Blade Runner of the London
Olympics is charged of murdering his super model girl friend in Pretoria, South
Afroca, the fame and notoriety in living out the good life, behind that life
style is comparable to the Maine University NFL Kansas City linebacker,
committing relative “domestic violence”
on his wife of two months and taking his own. Concussions and memory lapses,
beholden to his emotional wrath.
The constancy of the appearances and reality motive suggests that a
neanderthal man like W.C. Fields “ Didja ever know? A sucker is born .....”
literally for the unrequited passion gone menacingly sour, in its relative
frequency.
The Bard’s “Love Labor Lost.”
III
What hath this departure of the species? Spawning
their demons, yet within their own vibes of desperation. No paparazzi to
contend with, rue the day to day syndrome, no longer viable enough to sustain
and fill their cupeth over.
Invasion of privacy, mob rule
prevailing in the abyess of mass audiences being part of the equation, the hip
exploiting the audience with prizes of acclaim and rewards beyond Mount
Olympus.
The culture surfeited with
tongues unleashing their saliva in a time when mother nature has unleashed her
own fury upon morality gone off the wall, as W.C. Fields aforementioned.
IV
The film producer and
director(“The Champion”) Stanley Kramer ,tried to reconcile this gap between
appearances and reality. Far from the maddening crowd, his “Ship of fools”,
starring Vivian Leigh, Jose Ferer, Simone Signoret, and Lee Marvin.
They played out Katherine Ann
Porter’s artistry. The widening gap between appearances and reality. Sailing on
the ocean of their humanity, Ship of Fools plays out the disenchantment of 3000
passengers...the disaray, arising from the fire in the engine room of the “Triumph”
ocean liner.
Living out their Dickens “Great
Expectations”, the passengers become prisoners: shedding their skins,
drifting in “Anthony Adverse’s ” first class turned third class
steerage, the liner
steering ever so slowly toward
Mobile, Alabama docks.
A showered passenger arriving in
Galveston, Texas: hunkered down, a burger front¢er, he identified with
the appearance and reality vacuousness playing out.
V
A reversal of roles, indeed.
The transformation never like in “”Mutiny on the “Bounty” Clark
Gable as Fletcher Christian rebelling at Charles Laugton’s “Captain Bligh” command of the ‘Bounty’.
Franchot Tone seen as an
aristocratic scrub, witness to the sadistic headwinds and currents, stalking
the ocean of humanity lapsing into a Hurricane Sandy like mode.
Marlon Brando playing out Gable’s role half a century later, “the
Bounty’s mutiny” Very much in his
imagination.
”I waz once a contender (“On the Waterfront’)
VI
The “Ship of Fools” however
ruminates from the 15 th century. The appearances and reality dissonace playing out for over 6 hundred
years. Mother nature exploiting human nature like the plague, a surge on our ocean of humanity.
******
An allegory? “Unconscionable..”
“Indeed”
The city that never sleeps,
February 16, 2012.......
