Posted by noa on November 21, 2003, at 20:18:55
In reply to Noa - I finished garp - and my usual book ramble!!, posted by NikkiT2 on November 13, 2003, at 9:53:54
Well, one of the things I liked about the book was how it dealt with quirky human delusions like how Garp was so obsessed with protecting his family from dangers from without, but the biggest dangers to his beloved family came from within, and he ended up being the cause to his own family of any family's worst nightmares!
This is kind of like what I saw as the main theme of the movie "After Hours", a film by Martin Scorsese, which portrayed how complicated, unpredictible and perilous human relationships can be (with Kafka-esque frustration and plenty of references to the Wizard of Oz), in contrast to how safe and uncomplicated Griffin Dunne's character's relationship with his computer was, while people around him had been demonizing the computers out of fear.
This is why people demonize anyone who is different, and fail to really see the dangers that come from ordinary insiders.
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