Compacted trash

Unfortunately, at some point The Gloink Queen set her egg ball down, saw a corn kernal, and in her teenie tiny mustard seed brain she decided this was not a corn. This was the ultimate egg ball.

I have tried to help her, this poor creature who pranked herself. However, every attempt to try to remove the corn, or hold it and chase her away from it to try to get her to take her actual egg ball?

Results in her entering a fight to the death with me to protect her corn kernal baby. I don't know what to do. She has done the equivalent of taking her child to the clothing store, then sprinted out with a well dressed child mannequin, then gotten into a hostage situation WITH THE POLICE while they try to retrieve the mannequin and reunite mother and child while she screamed, "I DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS! THIS IS MY BABY! LEAVE US ALONE YOU MONSTER!"

I can never really tell people that “Voor een Verloren Soldaat” is one of my favorite movies. I have watched a lot of movies dealing with that subject matter. Verloren is special because it has heart. The movie is different than the book and I’m not sure why. In the book, Rudi van Dantzig (the author) describes being molested. In the movie, the soldier is played by an attractive young man and it is turned into a love story. The movie was made with Dantzig’s participation and so I assume it was endorsed by him. It was his childhood.

Maybe there is a message behind that. The book is a statement of what happened to him. It’s not an attempt to make sense of anything. In the third part of the book, it’s clear that Jeroen (Rudi) is left with a lot of confusion and trauma from his memories. The movie attempts to give meaning to his experience, but it reinterprets everything to do so. It’s a reconstruction of a fractured childhood into a fairytale narrative. He and the soldier love each other, they part, and find each other in the end.