There are occasions I feel bad for Jim Carrey.
Among the long list of people for whom Hollywood
and fame have not been good for their mental
health, Carrey is certainly at the top of
the list.
Carrey’s craziness once seemed of the playful
sort; when The Onion referred to him as a
“rubber-faced fartsmith,” we all assumed
that was just a persona. And it was — for
a while.
Now Carrey doesn’t really star in anything,
mostly due to the fact that he seems to have
lost contact with the planet earth and gives
interviews so incoherent they would even give
Jaden Smith pause.
Oh, and he’s also doing artwork. Political
artwork. Because if there’s anyone I think
should be making grand, nuanced political
statements, it’s the guy behind “Ace Ventura
2: When Nature Calls.”
His usual targets are members of the Trump
administration, surprise of surprises. And
his latest target is White House press secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who he portrays as
a sort of ghoul:
This is the portrait of a so-called Christian
whose only purpose in life is to lie for the
wicked. Monstrous!
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) March 17, 2018
“This is the portrait of a so-called Christian
whose only purpose in life is to lie for the
wicked. Monstrous!” Carrey said along with
the release of the portrait.
Now, quite frankly, it’s slightly difficult
to take the artistic pronouncements on anyone’s
religion seriously when:
a) the portrait looks like it was done in
ten minutes on a glitchy iPad 2, and…
b) it comes from someone who once said, and
I quote: “As an actor you play characters,
and if you go deep enough into those characters,
you realize your own character is pretty thin
to begin with. You suddenly have this separation
and go, ‘Who’s Jim Carrey?’ Oh, he doesn’t
exist actually. There’s just a relative
manifestation of consciousness appearing,
and someone gave him a name, a religion, a
nationality, and he clustered those together
into something that’s supposed to be a personality,
and it doesn’t actually exist. None of that
stuff, if you drill down, is real.”
Yeah, man. Yeah.
The point is that our dime-store Chinese-knockoff
Hegel probably isn’t the guy to be judging
other people’s religious beliefs or whether
they “lie for the wicked.” But hey, if
“none of that stuff, if you drill down,
is real,” what is a lie anyway?
So that disqualifies him from talking about
religion, but we should also consider that
his past “artwork” regarding the Trump
administration should probably also disqualify
him from any serious consideration as a political
artist.
Again, I feel slightly bad about this. This
is not a well man.
Then again, Trump has exposed a lot of people
in Hollywood who aren’t particularly well-adjusted.
If you don’t believe me, follow Cher’s
Twitter account.
In Jim Carrey’s case, I can only fall back
on the sage wisdom of that eminent psychiatrist,
Lucy Van Pelt: “The mere fact that you realize
you need help indicates that you’re not
too far gone.”
Jim Carrey, apparently, does not believe he
needs help. I’m just going to leave that
out there for summary judgment.
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