Fridge

Looking back now, I can distinctly remember the feelings that I had when watching “Fridge”. To be honest I had slightly forgotten about this film, and seeing the others in the class comment on it reminded me of this. As we watched this on the same day as “World of Glory”, a film that I will not ever forget, it sort of got passed over as the only film I thought about for awhile was “World of Glory”.  It almost was as if “Fridge” was a warm-up piece to the final, horrific film.

Now, when I think about “Fridge” separately, I realized that that film took as much of toll on my feelings and my outlook on the human nature as “World of Glory”, just in different ways I guess. As the boy was locked in that fridge, all I could think about was how he could potentially be helped. The “worthless” bums are there to help, but their resources and strengths are limited. When I saw the people looking out the windows, I kept thinking, “Oh, there is the hero. That old lady…. Or oh… maybe that man… guess not him…. Or maybe that mother who has a child of her own….” Nope… No one was there to help the homeless couple save this innocent child from suffocating. Everyone just watched and continued on with their lives.  The human nature: self-centered, cold, uncompassionate. We are just great, aren’t we. I mean in reality we all do this same thing as the people in this movie. I did the same thing immediately after.  I watched the problem and then moved onto the next thing in my life, forgetting everything that I saw.