“Life-Fiction”
Movies take over your thoughts whether you want them to or not. The funny thing is, you know that real life is not as simple as what is going on in films, but you cannot stop thinking how nice it would be to violate that rule for once!
Well, I would like to be Marty McFly, so I could travel back in time and always take “the road less traveled”, but never have an idea what the future would hold for me. I would like to be the Terminator, with a metallic skeleton, so that my heart would be protected from damage, in the iron cage designed for it.
I want to be Oskar Schindler, so that I could have an honest idea what human life is worth. And if I were Forrest Gump, I would never want to have a normal IQ again, so that I would not be fully aware of how that valuable commodity is being humiliated, especially today. I could be John Malkovich, able to travel in my own mind, or John Nash, actually believing in the crap that my mind tries to sell me.
I've always wanted to be like the young Michael Corleone, to be the most loved son of my family, with a surprising potential. I’d love to be like Vasili Zaitsev, to have the patience and self-control required in becoming a significant idol; but I would like to be Superman as well, though not for the flying bit, but so I could wear my black glasses and become the insignificant Clark Kent again. Tyler Durden could remind me I am not a “beautiful or unique snow flake”; but let him speak, I want to be Tony Montana, and the world will be mine.
Movies, they could really ruin you.

Efe Peker (POLS/III)