Last week’s wacky shaninagians really reminded me 0f the short film The Red Balloon? If you haven’t seen the French film, originally titled Le Ballon Rouge, it is the story of a boy who discovers a balloon that drifts around following him with a mind of its own. The boy chases the balloon through city streets and eventually becomes very fond of the illusive object. Overall it is a story about the love a child can have towards a random object like a red balloon.
Well last week there was two different incidents that reminded me of this classic French film. The first one was not much of a reach at all for the imagination. Here in the States a family was stupid enough to stage a similar storyline except this time the boy was supposedly inside the aimlessly drifting balloon. It all turned out to be a sick publicity stunt by the boy’s parents to attempt to get a reality television show and the boy was actually hiding in the house and not floating through the clouds in an object that could never hold his weight in the first place.
Getting back on subject though, the second act that reminded me of The Red Balloon was in the Premier League. During the Sunderland-Liverpool match a red beach ball (a distant relative to the balloon) drifted in front of the Reds goal and became a major component in the lone goal of the game when it was struck by a grounded shot from Darren Bent. The soccer ball flew one way and the red beach ball flew the other. Many blame the keeper for the goal, but what really could he have done there?
The Red Balloon was simply too illusive to save…
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