So I was watching a few movies recently on Netflix. One that I watched earlier today was called
Special. It's a very, well, interesting movie. It's not a comedy or a tragedy, although I assume that since everybody does live in the end it is still technically a comedy. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Special is a movie about this guy Les, who becomes a human guinea pig for a drug company. Now this premise, this premise could go anywhere, but here's what is interesting. The drug's effects are to inhibit the sense of self-doubt in the brain. And Les, being a generally normal person doesn't have much of a self-doubt problem, but he does have an interest in comic books. Now if you remove self-doubt from the equation, the premise is that Les starts believing the tropes in comic books and starts to fool himself into thinking that this self-doubt inhibitor drug is giving him super powers. Such as flying (he's really just baked off his gourd from the drug side effects), mind control (He's just talking to himself in his mind), and walking through walls (convenient lack of memory from blacking out when he runs face-first into walls to show his friends - he chalks up the physical damage to "the toll that using his super powers takes on him").
All in all, add in a LARGE dose of paranoia and mistrust, and it's a genuinely entertaining film. He even comes up with a superhero outfit which is basically skating gear, a one-piece jumpsuit, and a liberal amount of silver spray paint. And most of the movie is narrated by his inner monologue, even though it's painfully obvious to the movie viewer that he's not a super hero, just some guy who is doing experimental (prescribed) drugs.
Now, I also watched a movie a month ago, which came out in the 70's:
A boy and his dog. This movie is a post apocalyptic movie about a boy and his telepathic dog, and how they outwit wasteland survivors and a very strange sheltered fallout community. The end of the movie, well, I won't spoil it, but it ends in a very unexpected manner. But what ties the two movies together, or at least makes them more interesting to me, is to take the premise of "A boy and his dog" and re-watch that holding the theory that the dog really *isn't* telepathic, but that the boy is just very delusional. It ends up being some sort of psychotic thriller if you take that angle.
I dunno, I'm probably doing too much thinking at 3:30 a.m. for my own good, but if you haven't seen either of those movies, I'd recommend them both, even though they're definately not intentionally comedic movies.
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