You are definitely not weird

Kacie 2022-03-31 09:01:03

"Manny, I want to make you feel all the things that belong to people in this world, beautiful, painful, embarrassing, happy, you just need to remember everything you feel, it is definitely not weird, but normal I want to cry every

time Hank in Swiss Army Knife Man comforts the weird zombie Manny like that, maybe Hank doesn't have any reason why he's trapped in the first place. Lonely Island, a person who was so desperate to commit suicide because there was no one to rescue him, desperately longed for someone who could say this to him from the bottom of his heart.

After all, he himself is a monster who thinks of his mother when he masturbates, a timid voyeur, a maniac who is lonely enough to see zombies farting. However, it is such a person, or perhaps it is the person who has suffered so much, that in another strange world, he can treat a corpse with a disastrous complexion, stiff limbs, and loud farts, patiently and exhaustively. Abandoned materials, everything that builds human society in the forest, tells Corpse Manny the warmth and beauty there. Give him faith and courage: your home is there, we must go back.

Although Manny is a corpse, in Hank's eyes it is like a new life, his salvation, his only hope of returning to the world that abandoned him. He recklessly shared all the joyful experiences in his heart—the experiences he longed to relive when he hanged himself, but tried to avoid telling Manny of his own misery and pain. Because joy and happiness can make Manny exert his magical power, transform into a slingshot, fill a shower, go to the sky, and rush into the waves; while sadness and pain will only make Manny's magical power suddenly extinguish, or even completely die again.

However, Hank is not only due to this utilitarian need, but in essence, Hank and Manny have difficulty facing their own weirdness; they tremble and cry because of the world's ridicule and their own cowardice. Inferiority, just like Hank's father's catchphrase "You are mentally handicapped", was deeply embedded in Hank's mind. When no one told him that all this was normal, he was too timid to confess his favorite girl. It's normal. When masturbating, remembering that my mother is also a cause and effect, Hank can only choose to believe that I am a monster! mentally handicapped! abnormal!

In fact, courage is never born, Aung San Suu Kyi once said that courage is acquired through hard work. A line in my favorite American drama "Severe Crimes" is even more direct: "Courage is only found when people have nothing to do." When I saw these words, I was instantly relieved, because I often asked myself if I was too failed and too timid. Why did I know during the interview that most of the street sleepers were not as abnormal and violent as I imagined, but Still didn't dare to talk to them. At this time, there are always articles and words of friends telling me that "it's normal to be rejected", "it's normal to dare not go, but trying may have surprising results." Circumstances, and being forced into nowhere by homework, I did it.

Manny also did it. He dragged Hank to the backyard of the goddess Sarah in the end, and he desperately told Sarah's young daughter all his experiences with Hank, but the director told us cruelly In reality, sometimes even if you overcome all difficulties and muster up the courage to confess everything, it will not give you good results. The little girl frowned slightly, and softly spit out "So disgusting"! He defeated Manny, who gradually recovered to "health" under Hank's careful care, and Manny became a motionless corpse again.

At this time, Hank finally broke out. He had the opportunity to frame all the sad and perverted past on Manny, because everyone didn't know whether it was Manny or Hank who died. Hank's father who came to identify the body because Too sad to refuse to recognize. Hank could have returned to society as Manny, a legendary hero - the TV wanted to interview him about his survival in distress. However, Hank chose to explode and let everyone know that he was a lunatic and a pervert.

Because maybe perverts and lunatics are the fact that this society has created him, and more importantly, compared to a whole modern and comfortable society, he and Manny are not as happy as the time he and Manny spent in the forest!

There, someone will tell you: "You're not weird, fart freely!"
And someone will tell you: "It's amazing, you can!"

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Extended Reading

Swiss Army Man quotes

  • Hank: You just seemed really happy, and I wasn't.

  • Hank: You know... I... I had always hoped that right before I die, my life would flash before my eyes and I would see wonderful things. A life full of parties and friends, and, and how I'd learned to play the guitar, and, and maybe there'd even be a girl; but as I was hanging up there, I didn't really see much of anything, but I did see you. And I know... I know it sounds dumb, but I, I really thought for a moment that, that maybe, just maybe there was a reason that you...

    [Manny farts again]