Week 11: Tortured Genius

Films:

Crumb: 1995
The Skin I Live In: 2011
Karl Rove, I Love You: 2006.

Each of the three films deals with the torture of genius in different ways.  Crumb follows Robert Crumb, underground cartoonist and author.  The Skin I Live In is difficult to describe without spoiling, but it focuses on a mad surgeon and his revenge on the world.  The last film is a mockumentary about a man falling for the genius of Karl Rove.

One films claim genius, or inspiration, eventually lead to madness.  The Skin I Live In has the protagonist's mother claim madness was, "In my entrails."  Crumb's entire family seemed mad, so maybe madness does stem from entrails.

I didn't feel inspired to write this week, so I basically took the week off.  Next week will be more robust.