character who only exist

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There’s a lot written about the “magical negro”—the sagely black character in films who exists only to enlighten the white main character, and then go away. But its inverse is the scourge of the “magical cracker”—the white protagonist who becomes a vessel for a film’s disempowered characters, and therefore becomes the hero of the story, trivializing their actual struggle. The Help is a classic example of “magical cracker”—Skeeter is the only way in which poor disempowered maid Aiblieen can tell her story, to recognize that she is worthy of a voice.

After a binge..

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Ater a binge I wasn't sure if this was describing me or Christopher Shamus...Psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia may lessen--a period during which doctors say the patient is in the residual stage or remission. Other symptoms, such as social withdrawal, inappropriate or blunted emotions, and extreme apathy, may continue during both these periods of remission and periods when psychosis returns--a period called relapse, and may persist for years. People with schizophrenia who are in remission still may not be mentally able to bathe or dress appropriately. They may speak in a monotone and report that they have no emotions at all. They appear to others as strange, disconcerting people who have odd speech habits and who live socially marginal lives.

This was no Jarmusch Movie..

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This was no Jim Jarmusch movie...it was the real thing...hanging out with a delusional schizophernic for 13 years in an alcoholic blackout where the debate became who was more delusional...and the only pussy I got was from a bipolor woman who frequently couldnt' understand reality....like I said, it was the real thing...