Things I’ve Been Wondering About
I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button the other day and a couple of things made me wonder…
If he was born old, but the size of a baby, then shouldn’t he have died young (as he did) but the size of an old man?
And as far as his name goes, he was named Benjamin by his “adoptive” mother and he probably took her last name. He didn’t know, nor for that matter anyone else, who his father was until he was well along in (his) years. Do you think he really took his name? I don’t think so. So why is the movie named after Benjamin BUTTON, a man who doesn’t technically exist?
When he got together with the call girl he went on and on and on. But his body was that of an old man. Shouldn’t he have been on Viagra or something if he was aging backwards?
You know we celebrate Independence Day as if it’s a celebration of freedom. Last I checked the two don’t coincide. For instance, Cuba has been independent of Spain for over 100 years and they still celebrate that yearly, even though there hasn’t been much (or any) freedom for the last 50 years, while Puerto Rico being an American property is not independent, and yet Puerto Ricans have all the freedom that U.S. citizens have. Go figure.
And speaking of Puerto Rico, they are not technically a country, yet they are represented as such in the Olympics. I may be wrong, but wouldn’t that be the same as Greenland sending athletes to the Olympics even though they are ruled by Denmark? Yet for some reason they don’t. I wonder why?
And how about this for some useless information: The population of Greenland, a country covering over 800,000 square miles is less than 60,000. The population of Kendall here in Miami exceeds that alone (app. 75,000) in an area of just over 16 square miles. I bet there aren’t many traffic jams during rush hour in Greenland!!
Why do they keep taking shows from television that were geared for young kids and making them into movies geared for older kids and adults? When I was my kids’ age I watched Transformers and G.I. Joe on TV. Now the movie versions are definitely not for kids of that age with the amount of sexual references being thrown around clearly not appropriate for the under 10 crowd (not to mention the EXTREME violence). Shooting for PG-13… I guess money talks in the end, huh?
And why the heck is it that such silly information floods my head that eventually brings me to write it down. Does anybody else ever think of any of this stuff? Or am I just plain old loony and fried? This is a hypothetical question, not to be answered. I already know the answer to that last question in case you were wondering.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Wency, you are not the only looney toon in the shack. I think of these things as well, but I don’t write them down. But, it’s cool that you do. Keep it up.