WesHuffor

About

I've always thought that a person is most honest at their wits ends. At that breaking point there's no time for facades, or chivalry. That's when you really see what a person is all about. I've wondered what it takes for a good man to do wrong, or an honest man to lie. How far would a person go to feed their addiction or protect someone they loved? The films and books I liked as a youth really reflected those questions I had. When the camera pans up and away from Gittes (Jack Nicholson) at the end of Chinatown, and no matter how much he wanted to protect Evelyn (Faye Dunaway,) the evil of the world won. From there I picked up on the film-noir genre and started reading Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. The world of the private dick was rough, man. Lot's lot's unfulfilled hope and best intentions that, in the end, didn't count for much. The characters really reflected what we're capable of at our worst. If I could spend one day with anyone, from anytime, it might just be Rod Serling. Twilight Zone seriously sparked even more questions in my young brain. He said once, "There is nothing in the dark, that isn't there in the light." Crap, now I had that to worry about. The beauty of that series still astounds me today. How did they make such poetic self contained perfect stories in the runtime that they had? It's a format that's been done many times since, but none as cleanly. After I started reading comics, it didn't take long for me to gravitate towards Daredevil. The universe seemed unwilling to give Matt Murdock a break. Story after story, you just wondered, could it get any worse for this guy? It did, over and over again. Silence of the Lambs showed me that the scariest monsters are the real ones.