The Furious Spinner

It's cold and rainy...not that I'm complaining. My friend Linda has been having such a difficult time. She got home from chemotherapy and took a bath. Her spring had gotten contaminated (and she didn't know it), so she got an infection after taking the bath. Now she doesn't have any water. It's been over a week. This woman has metastasized breast cancer in her bones. She gets chemo every week. She has no money and no insurance. She gave away her car in exchange for someone cleaning out her barn. Someone else gave her another car, but it broke down. She had to have most of her teeth pulled to avoid infection, but when the dentist made the mold for her dentures, he pulled it off her gums too roughly and pulled up a bone fragment which is now infected. So, let's add it up: cancer, two infections, no potable water, and no car of her own and she lives 20 minutes from town (I lent her mine). If I did believe in god, this would be proof that he was a mean vindictive sonofabitch. Poor sweetheart. She just keeps getting sucker punched.

I feel so lost and frustrated because I can only stand by and watch and offer help. I can't make it go away. Then I go home and want to crumble. Of course death and dying are parts of the natural cycle of life, but these horrific environmental diseases do not feel natural.

So today I watched The Contender again. President Jeff Bridges nominates Joan Allen for his vp after his original vice president dies. They call it a political thriller, but I don't think it is. It's a political movie, and I really like it: even though we spend most of the movie watching Joan Allen being tortured (not literally). What I like most about the film is what happens after THE END comes up on the screen. It says FOR OUR DAUGHTERS. Makes me weep every time.

In the Making of documentary in the special features, they talked about other political thrillers. They mentioned The Parallax View. That was a great movie. That movie changed how I saw the world. Although I still am not a conspiracy person, I could see from that movie how easy it would be to make it look like someone innocent had committed a crime. If you've never seen the movie, it'll probably seem dated, but at the time, it was something new and scary. The Making of docu also mentioned The Manchurian Candidate. The original one. Now, while I enjoy seeing that movie every once in a while for the style and the acting, I have never believed a single solitary word of it—to me, it is total fantasy, something that did not and could not have happened. The recent MC was just stupid, without the style.

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