Vernon, Florida.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought I’d seen the best movie ever after witnessing the genius of Gates of Heaven, but no.\u00c2\u00a0 Vernon, Florida managed to do so.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a lot I want to talk about, but I’m going to start with the guy who was holding the turtle, but called it a gopher.\u00c2\u00a0 The animal was harmless, he liked sandy ground, and various other characteristics of a gopher.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a gopher, not a turtle.\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously.<\/p>\n
This man unknowingly brought up the question of what constitutes what something is?\u00c2\u00a0 If the animal is acting like a gopher, isn’t it a gopher?\u00c2\u00a0 How do we define something, or someone for that matter?\u00c2\u00a0 If we have all the characteristics of one thing, it seems to me that we are that thing.\u00c2\u00a0 If one was raised by a wolf, they would be a wolf.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a human.<\/p>\n
This brings me to an involved discussion that I was having with someone this weekend on this weird condition where a baby is born with really, really small male anatomy, and they are missing some of the genes of a male, so they just cut off the male parts and raise the baby as a girl.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
This blew my mind.<\/p>\n
So this baby, who is really a guy missing some chromosomes, is raised to think that they are a girl, and they think they are a girl, and they look like a girl, but they are not.\u00c2\u00a0 Or are they, because they think they are?\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t understand how this works.\u00c2\u00a0 This old guy, who is just innocently talking about a turtle\/gopher, is really bringing up the question of what it is that constitutes someone’s identity.<\/p>\n
I think the question of identity was also brought up later in the film where a man was talking about diamonds and rain.\u00c2\u00a0 He wad that “after a rain, you see those drops in the woods and it’s almost more beautiful than the diamond.”\u00c2\u00a0 We like diamonds, because they are diamonds (well actually, I don’t like diamonds, but whatever most people do).\u00c2\u00a0 But what about the fact that a lot of times other things that cost nothing at all, like raindrops, are more beautiful, and more special.\u00c2\u00a0 But because they aren’t diamonds, most people wouldn’t pay thousands of dollars to see rain drops.\u00c2\u00a0 And it’s for no more of a reason than the fact that it’s a raindrop, and not a diamond.\u00c2\u00a0 This man (I think it’s the turkey man, who I could also talk about for ages) recognizes the fact that it’s not what something is, it’s not what it’s called…a rain drop might as well be a diamond if it is as beautiful as one.\u00c2\u00a0 A turtle might as well be a gopher if it is acting like one.<\/p>\n
This is totally irrelevant but I have to throw in this quote from the movie, just because it’s awesome.<\/p>\n
“He said, ‘that’ll be the last thing I ever do, is shoot myself.’ Which it was.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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