I think Worlds Greatest Dad was the best film by Robin Williams...the Bobcat Goldthwait film he did a few years ago...its weird how the character in the film blurs the lines between the films fiction and what it seems like he might have been going through in his real life in recent years....the divorced failing writer/teacher whose son dies of autoerotic asphyxia does seem depressed....remember his comment in Moscow on the Hudson about pain....about how he loved his pain because it was HIS pain and it was only thing no one could take away from him....For me Williams always was able to talk about what most people would have considered deeply personal insecurities in his stand up...his experience with boner pills...his chemical dependency issues...material a lot of other comedians would shy away from...since their publicist tells them its sure to tank their career if they allow the world to know they too are flawed human being.....does anybody remember Robin Williams: At The Met (1986) with Scott Baio on a highchair in the audience where he recalls all the ballet dancers that used to turn him down while he attended Juilliard (which also calls to memory the role in August Rush)....just like other great comedian heroes like Bill Hicks and Richard Pryor, Robin realized that comedy is meant to be cathartic...humans developed humor as a way of controlling our sadness...to keep it from snowballing....Pryor said its a defense mechanism to deal with pain....thats why slapstick comedy works....you see someone get hurt physically....and it recalls sometime when you were hurt yourself....and that laughter is the mechanism by which our brains protect us from reliving that pain over and over again every time we think about the memory....Ive known real depression...my life has turned upside down recently after an 8 year relationship just came to an end leaving me feeling really alone in the world right now...so my heart goes out to his family, friends, and his fans...and I hope the human race can awaken to realize that our mistakes and traumas and insecurities can just as likely become the source of our creative output....the spotlight we can shine on ourselves to launch a career...and the microphone (or megaphone) we use to express to others how we made it through our own personal trials...and by telling crowded theaters of gut-guffawing strangers about them as a joke, instead of ONLY crying about them in the relative privacy and security of a shrinks office, we can empower ourselves AND others....I think this is Robin Williams most important contribution to the ongoing drama of mankind and no news story about how or why he died can change that or take that away from the people who loved his performances
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 07:24:09 +0000
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