Air Bud, anyone?
I love retards, because they make me laugh so much! "God’s little comedians", as they say. My favorite movie with a retard is Sling Blade, and runner-up would be What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, from what I can think of at this moment. Earlier today, I caught part of this ridiculous movie starring Rosie O’Donnell as a retard. I watched for a while to see if old Rosie could play it decently, seeing as how she doesn’t seem too far from the role in real life. But she was…..absolutely awful. One of the worst, most unbelievable retards I’ve ever seen in a movie. Can’t even remember the name of the movie, but it’s not important, since it’s not a movie I’d recommend, unless boredom, frustration, and general annoyance are things you get off on.
Why is it that it normally takes intelligent, talented actors to play the most believable retards? Hahaha. Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, DiCaprio and Billy Bob, of course, John Malkovich…The answer is obvious, of course– because it’s hard not to overact such a role, and to bring depth and realistic nuances into it– but I just thought that was funny to note.
I once started to watch a movie by Lars Von Trier that seemed, from what I saw, to be unlike the other films of his I’d previously seen, like Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, Dogville— all brutally painful to watch, though I did get a certain artfully masochistic pleasure out of them, and the last one mentioned gave me an additional sadistic thrill which made it all the more satisfying. The Idiots was the movie I started, about a group of normal, that is, non-retarded people who go around pretending to be retarded, riding around on a short bus to take tours of factories and pressing all the buttons on machines they’re not supposed to touch, etc. My ex-husband grew quite upset during the film, claimed it was because they were taking advantage of people and it was wrong, and proceeded to yell at me until I turned it off. He usually did these types of things when he felt he wasn’t getting enough attention. Because of the irritating memory of that, I’ve never attempted to watch the movie all the way through, but I want to. Imitating retards can be a lot of fun, and people who are imitating retards with reckless abandon, no concern whatsoever for their dignity, are especially fun to watch.
Yesterday I walked around in a very quaint and lovely downtown area of a small town, and this young retarded albino man approached me and asked if I go to a certain high school in that area, Saint something-or-other High. I smiled and said no, and he kept saying he thought he’d seen me around in that high school. I laughed, because it’s been 14 years since I was in high school. Retards are sweet. He then followed me around talking about random things like he’d known me forever, and I made sure to smile and be nice to him. I do love how retarded people tend to naturally look like they’re up to mischief. Impish.
And yes, I absolutely treasure using the word retard. None of this modern politically correct "r-word" nonsense. What are they supposed to call them in schools now? Exceptional students? Because people are afraid they’ll be made fun of? Don’t these over-inflated idiots realize that exceptional will just become the new insult, like special did in the 90s? That’s so retarded! What euphemism will they feel obliged to replace it with next? Intelligent?
Evil lies in the hearts of men, not in specific words.