Homes for Butterflies

So last night I witnessed a truly disturbing movie.  I didn’t go home and feel scared or it wasn’t anything like, “Gah, I can’t sleep!”  But it was the immediate emotional response I felt as the black screen took over the theatre, signaling the end of the film that made me deem Paranormal Activity quite disturbing.  I found it so rattling because it goes somewhere most horror movies don’t tread… While discussing “demons” is not some new concept or anything, it was the way PA presented their subject material that made me truly sick in my stomach (while the handycam technique was mostly to blame for that, the movie still got to me haha).  And I’m not going to go any further because I want my friends to totally go see this (and I think I’ll definitely take Harriet next week)… but I just wanted to write quickly that you must see the movie Paranormal Activity.  It takes the horror genre and gives it the professional spin it needed- what transpires feels real and unadulterated.  And while it wasn’t necessarily the movie that frightened me… the concepts gave me a great shake and I left the theatre with my nerves quite jangled pouring over thoughts that most people would never give a second thought.  But it’s that belief in there being “more than the eye can see” which I possess that made me wonder: when I sit at this computer typing, or when I’m making dinner, or when I’m walking home from class late at night- am I really alone?  Are there angels watching over our backs?  Can demons stalk the living? Are there ghosts in purgatory searching for their settled soul?  And when you really assess the world we live in, do we really know all that much about what’s around us?  There’s still troves and troves of information to be discovered, and despite the scientific, technological age we live in, that is absolutely no reason to discard the idea of a spiritual realm existing elsewhere.  Or for that matter, beings made of plasma, a substance the human eye can’t process.  What if spirits are as real as the food you eat and the furniture you sit in, but they’re so high in temperature we can’t see them?  Or they do say that when a ghost passes through you, a chill is incurred- maybe the components they’re made of are actually intensely low on the blackbody curve?

It’s a very real phenomena, in my mind, that there’s far more to our world and to say there isn’t is just naive.  And I encourage you to let Paranormal Activity fuck with your senses for the hour and a half it demands and see where your thoughts go right after.