Beetlejuiceeeee
7/12/20 there is some front line atmosphere going on about the new semester: face masks, face shields, backup instructors for each course; younger teachers are talking about replacing older teachers for in-person classes … Cheers for all such ridiculous life!
Beetlejuice is a super fun Broadway show. I was laughing so hard from the beginning to the end. The story is lead by a demon called “Beetlejuice”. He is invisible to all the living persons and tries to make them to say his name three times. Many random ridiculous crazy shits happened when he interacted with the living and the dead.
I remembered two plots still. There is this little girl called Lydia. She missed her mother so much after she died. Lydia hated and blamed his father as he never said a word about her mother since her death, and it seemed that he already forgot her. Everyday he looked so happy and is very indulgent in his new life with his new girl friend. Finally, at the edge of their deaths, Lydia and his father opened up. It turns out that it is so much pain for him to think about her death so he used the indulgence to escape.
Another interesting scene is about this middle class couple Adam and Barbara Maitland. They were the new dead and Beetlejuice was teaching them how to scare away the people who wanted to take over their favorite house.
“ah —-”
“WAhh —-”
“ROARRRR—-“
The poor couple tried different ways but they … JUST … CAN’T … BE … SCARY … They either just talked louder or acted like a lion in a puppet show. Very sarcastic in my opinion. Are human beings over civilized in some ways?
I often met this category of people and in fact, I think these types of people are highly regarded in the western culture: they are polite, they are careful, they follow every correct rule other people define, they do all the appropriate things, they are political and make people feel good constantly … But, OMG, I just want to slam their faces. Shouldn’t be the heart and the brain that matter but not the optimized social behaviors?!?!?!
