The longer we live, the more we observe political and social narratives, the directions we are driven towards to create our personal realities, if we allow it. Just re-watched The Omega Man, Charlton Heston, 1971, first time in many years. A really good, to my mind, futuristic film about a germ apocalypse which kills off millions and turns others into zombie type humanoids.
The Heston character starts off as the capitalist scientist survivor who had discovered a vaccine, which apparently was never accepted or too late to introduce to the world, but he injected himself with it and became immune. He had fortified himself inside his private enclave, played chess with a statue, drank good cognac and drove around the deserted city during the day, and had developed a system to keep the zombies at bay after dark, with a powerful system of bright lights.
I remember when Charlton Heston was so vilified for standing with the NRA as a spokes person, when he gave his infamous speech about taking his guns "from his cold dead hands." The media called him all kinds of names like "racist", "terrorist", "misogynist", you name it.
And yet, he made one of the first films about a white man and a black woman falling in love; yes, that film, The Omega Man. Heston did another really great film, Soylent Green. He was a human being a bit ahead of his time, maybe? Don't ever listen to what the media tells you. Make your own personal judgments about others. I am a fan of the late Charlton Heston. Perhaps he knew that eventually we would all need our guns?
That's all.
