There’s a great film (I think it’s Swedish) about two patients in a mental hospital who are sent out into the real world to complete their rehabilitation, with hilarious results. There’s a scene where another character gets stopped by the Swedish police while driving a vintage American car, and the scene cuts to the policeman and the driver looking under the hood and having a pleasant conversation.
- Sounds like a manuscript that would've worked in the days of Ingmar Bergman.
Today, few people would understand such a playful, artistic approach to the world that surrounds us all.
Something has been lost.
Look at the 1970’s.
MC5 and Johnny Rotten and their followers were all insane, but at least they had some funny ways of using their high IQs compared to your average entertainer of today.
This could never happen in the age we live in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJm97o-4qYI
Today, we get shocked by the likes of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
I was born in 1969.
As the 1970s turned into the 1980s I could sense my very own awareness being leveled down to a lower level of functioning:)
(- Why did it take me so long to write this reply?)
On the other hand, the Internet actually constitutes a light in the dark.