Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-6052796-20140913190950/@comment-397235-20140918012752

Shane won't tell you this, but he's kind of got a fixation on this whole "Florence Nightingale" thing. It's honestly a little bit creepy, and he's the only one who believes it...but then, we all have our little quirks. I keep insisting Takako Sugiura isn't a monster, but no one really believes me either...except Cynebri...and she stopped posting a couple months ago...anyway.

As for Romero, I usually go back to either Night or Land. In both cases, the actions the director wants you to see as "good" end up fucking things up for everyone. I mean, every single decision Ben made from the word go was a horrible call in Night while Cooper was 100% right (he was just an asshole about it; Ben just happened to be a bigger asshole with a gun). As for Land, the guy played by Sid the Sloth is supposed to be more or less a sympathetic individual...but until he got involved, the City of the Living worked; how many people died because he bucked the system? Isn't a horrible, caste-based society better than an anarchic nightmare where people eat each other? Of course, part of this as well is Romero's own poor grasp of how capitalism works (you see it a lot in artists from his generation, so it's not all that surprising). I mean, he blames the failure of There's Always Vanilla on a lack of investors; gee, it sure is a shame there's not some system wherein people reward those who make a successful product with money...oh yeah.

The fight with Keith David is one of those things which really baffled me. I got up, went downstairs, and moved laundry around in my apartment's laundromat, came back, and it was still going on. The line about eating the trashcan is absolutely hilarious out of context, however. I'd like to see The Ward...except that it's a rip-off of Identity, which had a bigger budget (and, if I recall, John Cusack).