In My Cage

"I don't think I have achieved perfection."
-Jiro Dreams of Sushi, 2011 Documentary

Twenty-five years ago today:


September 21, 1986
Sunday

I enjoyed the French toast I made for myself at mom's house on this Sunday morning. After the meal I returned to my pad to lounge.

Mom and I would later rent three more movies: Young Sherlock Holmes, Birdy and The Hitcher. My brother, Tony, and Lauren came by for dinner. I guess Helen had plans elsewhere. Tony watched The Hitcher with us (Mom and I). It was a scary thriller about a young guy who picks up this hitchhiking man who turned out to be a maniac.

I ended up watching Birdy and Young Sherlock Holmes with ma and pa. We both enjoyed them. I think Dad really liked the Birdy story (as did I).
PHOTO:  "Birdy"
The film Birdy was about two guys, Birdy (Mathew Modine) and Al (Nicolas Cage) who become friends at school and serve in Vietnam together. Birdy already has a disturbing fixation with birds and his Vietnam experiences push him over the edge: when he returns from the war, he is sent to a mental hospital for assessment and his friend Al stays with him to try to reach him before it's too late and he'll be separated from Birdy, leaving him alone and lost inside his mind. The film contains many flashback scenes of their life together as teenagers in 1960s America and their developing friendship and views of life.

"I'm in my cage and I can't get out now."
-Yves St. Laurent
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