Vacation

Vacation, National Lampoon’s, is a1983 Comedy starring Chevy Chase. It is one of few comedies that I thoroughly enjoy. Written by John Hughes, now famous for such terrible movies as Beethoven and its 4 sequels and drill bit Taylor, was once known as great creative mind in the 80’s. It can be argued that two of his latter movies were better The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in my mind they can not surpass the simple joy that is Vacation. Simple is the key word here while most comedies are held down because of their plots, Vacation excels because of its plot. It has none. It follows the journeys of the Griswald family as they take a car trip across America to the fictional amusement park wally world (a clear Disneyland rip-off with an owner that looks like Walt Disney) along the we get to see some of the lively miss adventures. The constant in the movie that I always found most enjoyable was that it seemed real. Each new disaster that be felled them seemes plausible, if not common. You could see how your own family could end up in this predicament, except for possibly the death of aunt scene. As for me I am currently on vacation or at least that is what others are calling it. While most people go on vacations to exotic places like Europe or Canada, I go on vacations to the mundane world of the Florida panhandle also know as the Redneck Rivera. I came to realize this past week that being in Gainesville has left me aloof much like Obama when he talked about people clinging to guns and religion, we really forget about how the other half lives. While on trip to Wally World (Wal-Mart) with a friend we ran into a friend of his, an acquaintance that I knew a little. His girlfriend, wife, I am not really sure was with him. I noticed, though it was quite obvious, she had no left eye. She might have had a left eye, it could have been sucked down into her face, either way I know that that she use to have any eye because I had scene her before. As we stood there talking I started wondering if she notices that we know. I then think about how I would never see this in Gainesville, for that matter I would never have even consider the possibility that someone would be content walking around missing an eye. The whole experience left me with the impression that our view of the world is very limited. I think that this is what they call Framing. I guess sometimes you do not need to go to Europe to see the exotic it is there all the time right next to you.