RagingFlora

So, Joaquin Phoenix's JOKER. That's what I'm going to be calling the movie. It might be Todd Philips' but.......... let's let that one hang. Spoilers Ahead !!!!!!!! Let's start with the truth. I was disturbed after watching this movie. I was angry the whole day. My mother couldn't understand what had gotten into me. I felt frustrated. I lashed out without reason. Later on when I analysed my feelings, I realised I was feeling trapped. I have seen people suffer from mental illness in my family and watching movies based on that, I have always felt like I can't breath. It always makes me feel like I am a ticking bomb, though not outwardly unstable, just waiting for something to tip me over and then I'll come into my true self like a Raging Flood, RagingFlood, RagingFlora............... Don't misunderstand me, the fact that the movie made me feel this way, is proof enough that the Movie did it's job right. It is a Masterpiece. It h

Bill Cosby, America's Dad and My Ideal Man. He had all the traits that I would want in a man with whom I could share my life with. And his Dysfunctional yet Perfect Family that I dreamed of having one day. Well through my Teenage Years I told all my friends that he was the kind of Man I was looking for. "Someone just like Bill Cosby," I replied time and time again. Perhaps that was my first mistake. I should have said, "Dr. Cliff Huxtable". I had clearly become one of the people, who mistake "The Character" for "The Man".  It's the curse of media. You think you know somebody because you know their onscreen characters so well. This man or That woman can certainly do no wrong, just look at who they play on TV. They are the best kind of role models out there. But children, remember, there is a reason as to why the TV is called AN IDIOT BOX . It's because the people on it, who become a part of your lives just because you s