Whew. Okay, everything should be back to normal. Let me know what you think of the new design. And now here’s the entry I was going to post yesterday before everything went to hell….
Whole is a documentary from Minneapolis indie director Melody Gilbert. It tells the stories of people who have a deep yearning to become an amputee, so much so that some of them take it upon themselves to cut off the offending limb. The doc is currently airing of the Sundance Channel (which, amazingly, I don’t get). If someone has a tape or torrent of Whole, I’d love to take a look at it. I’m sure that many of us in the disability community are familiar with the subculture of amputee devotees, but the concept of someone actually wishing to be an amputee seems much more taboo. I know the DSM has a specific name for this compulsion (Body Integrity Identity Disorder), but I’d be really interested to hear the how these people view themselves. Do they desire to be in a state of disability or is it something else that motivates them?
Switching to more mainstream cinema, here’s the teaser for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (56 MB QuickTime file). It looks promising. I wonder if I still have my Narnia collection lying about somewhere. I still grew up to be an atheist, so I guess the underlying allegory didn’t take. That isn’t to say the execution of Aslan didn’t freak me out when I read it as a kid. It did, but not in a come-to-Jesus kind of way.
