Never having a home
Speaking of home, movies like the Warriors – which is based on a true story that happened almost 3,000 years ago – can be countlessly retold because the themes of longing, home, and survival are universal.
Hold that thought.
While I enjoy the modern takes on the Incredible Hulk – particularly the 2008 Ed Norton reboot – for someone that grew up with the 1978 television series, The Incredible Hulk, it’s very different.
Not just in terms of technology, production values, and the like, but the thrust of the show itself.
Essentially, the modern movies make stories about a god-like/monster-like hero, the television show was mainly about the other part of the Hulk, Dr. Banner.
There, Banner is shown as a drifter, and I thought that the show was the story of a man with a mindless monster inside of him.
As I got older, I got wiser and thought it was the story of a man searching for a home with a monster inside of him.
But this was wrong also, I realized.
It was the story of man that can never have a home, ever. He must always be on the run and can never relax or settle down.
Because the moment he finds someone to create a home with, that person will forever be in danger of the monster inside him.
So, he can’t have any relationships – no friends, no lovers, no children, no one.
Which is why the ending scene was always of Banner walking alone, to nowhere, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a duffle bag.
Banner can never go home because he can never have a home. He will never have a home.
So, there’s no home to find.
Because what is home if not the people that call it that along with you?
And he has no one to call it that with him.
It’s such a tragic story and can probably explain how a primetime television series about a big, green, comic book character in the 70s lasted five years.
In any case, just a random thought.
Think I’m finally starting to understand the world a bit.
Which isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Oh, by the way, my son’s home.
Him: I’m home!
Me: (laughing) Yes you are!
Location: NJ, getting my treasure
Mood: steamy
Music: There’s a monster in me who shut down (Spotify)
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