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Writer's Block: Tearjerkers
Dec. 11th, 2011 10:57 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. No, seriously. The scene in which "Blaster" of the Master-Blaster character team has his helment knocked off, and he is revealed to be a developmentally delayed individual, whom Master refers to as having the mind of a child. When Max refuses to kill the, for all intents and purposes, innocent, he dies. I don't cry just because of his death, but because of his whole tragic life leading up to that point. The exploitation, the violence, and the likelihood that he may not have understood much of what happened since the post-apocalyptic world in which he lives came to be.
I cry because I cried as a child, and now it's an automatic reaction, my heartstrings tug, and the tears come out. For all its cheesiness, it still produced a true emotion.
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. No, seriously. The scene in which "Blaster" of the Master-Blaster character team has his helment knocked off, and he is revealed to be a developmentally delayed individual, whom Master refers to as having the mind of a child. When Max refuses to kill the, for all intents and purposes, innocent, he dies. I don't cry just because of his death, but because of his whole tragic life leading up to that point. The exploitation, the violence, and the likelihood that he may not have understood much of what happened since the post-apocalyptic world in which he lives came to be.
I cry because I cried as a child, and now it's an automatic reaction, my heartstrings tug, and the tears come out. For all its cheesiness, it still produced a true emotion.
