what is normal?

Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs is the second movie installment of the Futurama series since Fox canceled production of the television show back in 2003. In Billion Backs the world is overran by an asexual tentacled creature that promotes “love” by spinal tapping the back-neck of its victims with its suction cupped appendages, and subjecting them to praise the tentacle. However Leela will have none of it, as she’s saving her neck “for a rich, handsome Dracula”.

In this scene Leela and Amy Wong narrowly escape an ambush by the tentacle-controlled Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth. Following one of the greatest pieces of animation in this movie – being chased down a canyon of future buildings in New New York City by Professor Wornstrom – Leela and Amy hide out in an alley, and after glancing at how much of life is controlled by the tentacles, including traffic cops, bus riders, fire hydrants and lizard walkers, Leela remarks on their status as perhaps the world’s only remaining normal people:

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a cyclops born to subterranean-living mutant parents, and the lone child daughter of billionaire parents who own most of the real estate on Mars… yup, normal people!

Normal is a movie featuring the foxy Carrie-Anne Moss of Matrix acclaim. (whoops! this image is probably more appropriate!)

As such, I will def give this movie a watch, and love a good drama. the plot reads:

NORMAL explores the lives of three strangers who are struggling for control, having failed to confront their roles in a tragic accident two years earlier. Catherine is a well-to-do suburban mother who has lost the ability to connect on any level with her surgeon husband and twelve-year-old son after the loss of her elder son. Walt is a failed writer and philandering university professor who deals with impending middle age and haunting memories by sabotaging every relationship around him. Jordie is a sensitive teenager who made a wrong choice one night and although he’s paid the price, still can’t halt his journey downward.

Normal movie IMDB entry

(drama…normal)

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scene from Ridley Scott’s 2007 American Gangster