Psychodrama

 Someday, I may start writing consistently for this thing.  Today is not that day.

Tomorrow don't look too good, neither.  Anyhow.

I have noted with pleasure that Stephen King's The Long Walk is being made into a movie, hopefully to be released soon (they finished filming last year.)  I look forward to this - The Long Walk is one of my favour psychodramas, and one of my favourite King works (even though it was a Bachman book, and my reaction to those was a bit mixed - but generally positive.)

The othes I'd like to see made into movies, if done right?  I'd like to see a proper redux of The Running Man," a 'long-short' (30-45 minutes should do) of Survivor Type, and (although I am sure to be considered crass for this,) Rage.

I once did a paper for psychology called The Mechanics of Madness: a Study of Insanity in Popular Literature, and I drew heavily on those three.  Survivor Type being largely self-destruction of the ego, Rage being a major conflict between the aspects of the mind, and Long Walk being about the social destruction of the psyche, wearing it down bit by bit.

Now, as a rule, I don't normally go to the theatre - I don't own a house to take out a second mortgage on to afford the tix and concessions.  The last movie I went to go see was the third Abrams Star Trek (and despite popular opinion, I enjoyed all three.  The connection with "Spock Prime" was a neat way to establish the Abramsverse as an alternate timeline, and I thought it was fun having the Beastie Boys on a Star Trek soundtrack, each time.

Sadly, I have lost the paper (homelessness is a bitch, and having your stuff auctioned off in a storage sale sucks.  Worse, the guy that bought it didn't follow the rules and return personal papers - so I lost all my geneaology and military history notes, and 20 years' worth of technical notebooks (mechanical solutions, tool designs, &c, &c) to the bin.  And he pushed the truck I had in storage out onto the street into a No Parking Zone - I spent years fighting that ticket!)  I may try to recreate it someday - I won't get the same thing (after all, you can never cross the same river twice,) but it would be interesting to see my take on it now, 30-odd years later, with much more experience and all that has happened to me since - including nearly losing my own sanity, which gives me a more comprehensive view of madness now.  (I'm surprised my kid sister didn't use me as a case study in abnormal psychology - I'd happily have been interviewed...)