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Charlie and Algernon: our relation with our genius hidden to be more loved

Flowers for Algernon. Daniel Keyes.
We loves Charlie because he's representative of our'internal desires to be smart, to have friends, to love. Everyone carries the baggage of childhood (Charlie), a time when others (Algernon) were the keepers of the secret knowledge of the world. And went we become adults we must carrie on with the ignorant dogmatism of the experts and genious.
"Please if you get a chanse put some flowers on Algernons grave in the bak yard...".
Please, see too: Science Fiction Unlimited: Review: 'Flowers for Algernon' by Daniel Keyes; and: franontanaya's blogg

The Lawnmower Man. Stephen King. Frankenstenial cyverpunk relationship.

We love Jobe, who's put into the cybersystem to improve his intelligence. We reconize Dr. Lawrence who make Jobe to knew his few ideas of his own and the secret knowledge of the world. This is a cyberpunk version of Flowers for Algernon. Charlie and Jobe become smart but, like in Plato's allegory of the cave, the mind's eye cannot see when used to darkness and then put into light. Neither can it see in the opposite situation.

James and Sally: lost love, lost chance.

The Remains of the day. Kazuo Ishiguro.
The shame about regret and lost:
"What I'm interested in is not the actual fact that my characters have done things they regret. I'm interested in how they come to terms with it." –Kazuo Ishiguro

A simbolic relationship between England and its colonies:
"The dynamic between the upper and lower classes, exemplified by Lord Darlington and his butler, duplicates very precisely England’s relationship to its colonies…Stevens’ private tragedy is precipitated by the cruel "hoax" by which the coloniser or master ensures that the servant exists only as a function of the needs of the coloniser." -Professor Randall Bass, Georgetown University

Reverend and John: three words chained: Depression, repression, perversion.

Night of the Hunter. Charles Laughton.
Reverend (Robert Mitchum): "Ah, little lad, you're staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand?''. This is the history of the American depression, of the repression of the values, of the perversion of our mind.

Capote and crime, the change of journalism forever?

About A Cold Blood: "I wanted to produce a journalistic novel, something on a large scale that would have the credibility of fact, the immediacy of film, the depth and freedom of prose, and the precision of poetry." Truman Capote.

Scout and Boo: the existence of evil is balanced by faith in the essential goodness of humankind?

“His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears. ‘Hey, Boo,’ I said.” To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee.
Boo embodies the fear of our infancy. When we mature, is our better friend.

The Elephant Man, a relationship about subjectivity?

“I am not an animal! I’m a human being! I am a man!” John Merrick said in 1980

Destructive and sado-masochistic relationship

Martha: I stand warned...So anyway, I married to S.O.B. I had it all planned out. First, he'd take over the History Department. Then when Daddy retired, he'd take over the whole college, you know? That was the way it was supposed to be....Until he watched for a couple of years and started thinking that maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all, that maybe Georgie-boy didn't have the stuff, that maybe he didn't have it in him!...You see, George didn't have much push, he wasn't particularly aggressive. In fact, he was sort of a FLOP! A great big, fat, FLOP!. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Mike Nichols.

Canibalism, gothic, greek mites, a lobotomised relationship?

He-he was lying naked on the broken stones...and this you won't believe! Nobody, nobody, nobody could believe it! It looked as if-as if they had devoured him!...As if they'd torn or cut parts of him away with their hands, or with knives, or those jagged tin cans they made music with. As if they'd torn bits of him away in strips!