Wednesday, April 09, 2008
 
The Animal Effect
The Animal Effect, wherein an animal in jeopardy in a movie is more poignant than human carnage (a la Independence Day, where the loudest cheer erupted in the theater when the dog survived the destruction of LA whereas presumably hundreds of thousands of humans, including minor characters, did not), strikes the news:
    Zookeepers were called in to help when police discovered a man-sized alligator in the basement of a Carthage home.

    Police found the American alligator while responding to a call about an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday.
The remainder of the story discusses the efforts to rescue the animal. No word on the accident victim or attempted suicide.

The man is just the man, but the alligator is an unspoiled child of Mother Gaia.

I only wish I were kidding, but I think it does fit into the current inversion of values, where all things of nature are more valuable than damn, dirty humans.


- posted by Brian J. @ 2:52 PM
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