OTHER WORLD VOICE

OTHER WORLD VOICE

It is time to write a blog, and I have a couple of things on my mind, mostly I want to wear my wife’s shoes.  Put the shoe on the other foot, and see if that might slow me down.  First let’s examine my state of mind.  I am befuddled by the world around me.  And the reason is simple.  I am looking at today’s world from an antiquated point of view.  I will try to explain.  I am trying very hard to keep up, and not rush to judgment.    Just accept things the way they are, and not spend a lot of time and energy analyzing the situation.  But two things happened recently that is making me reconsider and not rest easy.  And so I will have my say here and now, and then let it go.  Can’t change a thing.  Its just a blog and the other world operates on its own, separate from me and what I am thinking about.  And so I will call this my Other World Voice, and justify looking at all this from swollen eyes, and will leave it up to you.  “Is he crying?”

There are 3 different things going on that influence this blog.  On Monday I was reading about The United States and finding somebody to be Secretary of Defense, a title that leads us down that path, and decided who the Military/Pentagon Boss will be for the next 4 years.  And suddenly was reading articles about how things were changing, and the Military Budget would be cut, and the emphasis would shift from foreign wars, to spending money and balancing the budget and maybe even, Jobs in the U.S.  Not necessarily military spending.  And that was simple enough.  The mindset is changing.  Or at least that is the general impression I had.  But then, I moved forward and looked at a list of movies that were moving into position to win an Oscar.  You know.  America.  Entertainment.  Winning an Oscar.  Like that’s important this time of year.  And I wasn’t sure, what was more important.  NFL football Playoffs and Washington D.C. Redskins playing Seattle Seahawks, that team from the other Washington.  Football is a little bit like war.  And so that’s what I was thinking, when.

When I found out that RG=III, Washinton Redskins Super  rookie QB got hurt in battle, his team lost and now the super talented QB is having Knee Surgery.  Played hurt.  Now finished for the year, and maybe his career is in jeopardy, perhaps.  So I was thinking about that.  Football as War.  A fight for territory and bragging rights, and that lead me directly to thinking about Oscar and the movies.  And something added up for me, and I had to go see it for myself.  What’s the big deal?  Or is all of this small potatoes, and really in the scope of things, looking at my day and life from a 100 year perspective, does it matter that RGIII lost the game, maybe lost his position as QB, and that losing in turf war, ends his career.  If so, what’s next?

 

And now I am looking at the movies that are in top contention for the Oscar, and see two movies that seem to get me thinking a certain way.  There are 3 movies for 2013 that touch upon the theme that comes with this blog and my Other World Voice.  Those movies are:  Lincoln.  Zero Dark Thirty.  And.  Silver Linings Playbook.

 

So I went to the movie yesterday, and after 40 minutes or less watching Lincoln, the 1865 view of President Lincoln and his issues of the day, which was mostly about The Civil War, and giving equality to slaves, and I guess indirectly, to women, who at the time could not vote in the United States in 1865, I walked out.  Yes, didn’t stay to see the whole movie.  It was about war, and about many things that reminded me of the end of military influence and spending in our society, and I just left the theater thinking, Zero Dark Thirty.  And.  Silver Lining Playbook.  Those are the other movies seeking an Oscar Winning opportunity for best picture.  And I have seen Silver Lining Playbook and it was entertaining but in my mind, not Best Picture material.  Football oriented comedy and that’s where the idea, Playbook comes in.  Washington Redskins and RGIII.  About the playbook and playing hurt.  And now I am down to one movie:  Zero Dark Thirty.

And from where I am and my state of mind, its bleak.  Lincoln is not my choice for Best Picture of the Year.  Nor is Silver Linings Playbook.  So what’s left.  Zero Dark Thirty.  A movie about the demise of Bin Laden and water-boarding and behind the scenes activity, we chose to not talk about.  At least that’s the way it seems.  What happens when your best player gets hurt, RGIII and it flashes on the screen:  Game Over.  So it is with Bin Laden.  We know how the movie ends before its finished.  Game Over.  But is that it?   Lincoln and the Civil War ends.  Zero Dark Thirty and Bin Laden’s life ends.  Silver Linings Playbook and its just a comedy, but then I think:  Washington D.C.  Is RGIII’s career over?  And that’s when my other world voice kicks in.

 

Tells me that there are other choices we can make.  That its not all about war and the military budget and that kind of thinking.  And so I look farther.  More movies:  Argo.  A movie about rescuing hostages and has something to do with the Hollywood movie theme.  Haven’t seen the movie yet, so am not sure how it relates to my theme about 1865 Civil War and Lincoln.  Or about football and RGIII getting hurt over the weekend and now having knee surgery.  Or about Bin Laden and all that.  Argo and Les Miserables and Django Unchained.  More trouble.  Violence.  

 

And it gets me to thinking.  I have  it good.  Didn’t get hurt playing football.  Didn’t have to make decisions about ending a war and the issues of slavery.  And all I did was walk out of a movie, Lincoln after 40 minutes because it reminded me too much of today.  Finding a new boss to run the Pentagon.  Didn’t want to think about how it all goes down in Washington D.C.  Didn’t want to think about what happen to RGIII and his football future.  And mostly,  Hollywood.  Movie Oscars and Best Picture.  And now I have decided.

 

My Other World Voice votes for a movie called:   Life of Pi.  Part fantasy and Part Reality.  What happens when your ship goes down.  And you survive?  And that’s it.  Other World Voice.  2013 and equality.  All The People are equal.  Sort of.  Same-Sex Marriage and other stuff is in the air.  And I am thinking.  1865 to 2013.  We’ve come a long ways? 

Haven’t we?  Sort of.