A Game Of Chance

Is knowledge always an asset ?  Well not always as my cousin found out out when he made a bet with a seasoned football fan. Such was this mans obsession with putting his money where his beliefs were, he took on a small wager regarding an up and coming football match with my relation, who knew or cared nothing for the sport. My cousin was totally ignorant of any football knowledge at all. Period.  In fact he only entered into the wager to shut the football fan up.  Of course my cousin  won the bet, much to the disgust of the obsessive fan. When it comes to situations of chance or random outcomes, then knowledge can be a poor indicator of the situations conclusion. A person of vast knowledge has nothing over another in the game of chance, and what is life if not a game of chance ? Chance makes a mockery of us all. Life is just a roll of the dice in the end. All the knowledge in the world cant guarantee success. It may help, but rely on it at your peril...

In Heaven (Eraserhead; David Lynch; 1977)

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I first watched David Lynch's surreal film Eraser Head as a teenager. Its an odd, very dark film set in a nightmarish and overly industrial landscape ( comically so )  The films general subject is about becoming a father, and the terrible re-balancing a man suddenly has to do in how he views and relates to others around him. Well thats my take on the film today. You see after becoming a father, I now see a whole new film before me, twice as weird, and twice as disturbing and twice as revealing. Its funny how your perception of a film can change over time...