Martes, Disyembre 11, 2012

A Basket-Case

I've been watching the movie "The Breakfast Club" for several times already. The movie revolves around five students from different stereotypes (a jock, a brainiac, the prom queen, a weirdo, and a bully) who got in detention and ended up discovering their selves. This movie is one of the most popular teenage brat-pack movies back in the '80s because it represents every teenagers who's going out on something and is tormented in the norms of high school and life.

The thing that I like about this movie is that every character has some kind of connection in me despite their differences. I found that inside an individual, their are lots of personality which we possess but we cannot notice. Inside us, we are a dork who loves knowledge and explore the wonders of life, an athlete in which we win on something because that's what we do and not what we want to do, a royalty where we want to be noticed always by others in order to feel good about ourselves, a criminal were we become a bad-ass and imply fear on others to avoid inferiority, and a basket-case in which we have no direction in life and do things that pops on our mind due to emotional distress.

A basket-case. It can be a synonym for crazy, lunatic, and I am guessing there are more. But these kind of people can be easily defined as hopeless and in a useless condition. The simplest terms and the most convenient definitions for these kind of people are just based on what others see on them. Inside the tangled mind and pointless actions, there are stories that might catch our thoughts and hearts. They are like those titanic robots in Transformers, they are more than meets the eye.

Since they are "emotionally unstable", I can say that there is a story behind it. Some basket-case are being ignored by their loved one and what they do is they run out from home and find someone to lean on. But they can't lean on no one because they are not accepted (probably because of how they look or there social status). So what they do, they utilize nature as a friend. They TALK to things they think they can rely to even if this thing is just their own self. In some cases, there comes a point where loneliness becomes their friend and they let their own demise swallow them whole and then they begin to isolate their selves from society thinking that they cannot be understood and they do not belong on that place. They do not socialize because they think that everyone only sees them outside and not the story inside the person. They can't rely on no one  but to their own. 

They begin to imagine things and create their own world where they are accepted and where they think they can lean on someone 24/7. Life is sadder in there condition.And inch by inch, they become trapped by their own mind. But ironically, they loved being trapped in this imaginary vortex. They wanted to stay there because in there they can suppress their haunting and painful past and live in an extreme world created by their own minds. That is why sometimes they do crazy things on purpose to divert the sad thought into a happy one.

Others might say that their personality are just one-sided. They are wrong. Their personality is a complicated polygon with many sides. You'll never know what you get. Despite all the crazies they showcase, they still know how to care, how to laugh, how to cry, how to listen, and how to love.



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