Day 105
Day 105
February 12th, 2024
Is it just me, or does this month seem to fly by?
Well, it doesn’t matter because that means we are closer to closing out another month as we inch closer to the end game. Once this month is completed, we will get to the halfway point of the project by the end of April. Once the halfway point is hit, I might as well celebrate. Until then, there is no real point to look ahead because I will lose focus. I will stick to keeping it a day at a time.
Is the past just the past or is it much more?
I don’t have much to talk about movie-wise. I am still taken aback by the theory on Westin Hills sacrificing kids to Freddy. It is an evil plan and I honestly could see them doing that in the context of this film. It still makes sense to at least me that the town would consider that given their past and their wanting to ignore the events of the past and pretend that Freddy never existed.
I am not the first person to have the notion of the residents in the film trying to forget the past. I saw a wonderful article on Bloody Disgusting that I will like in this because it does a wonderful job touching on that subject.
‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ at 40: Wes Craven’s Cautionary Tale About Ignoring the Past
That article hit me like a ton of bricks, and I reflected upon it with a view of society. We create a boogeyman, then try to erase the past and go on like those events never happened. That is not a real boogeyman; that is someone who wants to create this utopia of a world that never existed. We have a checkered past as a society and still do in several aspects. We could work on healing instead of forgetting and creating this false world and be more accepting of people and how they want to live. We should never be telling anyone how to live their life. That’s not our responsibility, nor the responsibility of those in the heavens if you believe in that.
I also viewed it from a personal level. Real boogeymen exist; in many circumstances, it’s hard to shake the past off because of what that person did to them. These are real people who do sick and vile things to people, and IMO they deserve the worst punishment ever. I know that it’s not easy to get over what someone does to you just to feel some self-gratification or power over you.
When it comes to the past it sounds easy saying we need to learn from past events, but not every past event is something to learn a lesson from. We have good memories of the past, so so memories and some have horrible memories. We can learn from what others did wrong. But to scrub the past is just asinine. In the end, there are repercussions for scrubbing the past and creating a world we never lived in.
They never learned in the Elm Street franchise by the time we got to Freddy vs Jason that you shouldn’t try to erase the past. It will catch up with you eventually.
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