I rewatched the movie King Kong at home over the weekend.
The first time I saw it, I watched it with subtitles.
These days, I mainly watch original movies without subtitles that circulate on the internet.
When there are subtitles, I often miss scenes on the screen because I'm looking at the subtitles.
But when I watched it without subtitles,
I noticed quite a few new things.
When King Kong fights with monsters,
he mostly stands and fights.
King Kong is originally a gorilla, right.
But on a remote island untouched by humans,
it seems his body became extremely large, probably due to some side effect (?).
The thought that came to me while watching the movie was
I'm not sure if it's because I'm getting older, but
watching King Kong stand and fight,
I thought that King Kong's knee joints probably aren't very good.
King Kong's body, which is hundreds of times the size of a person, must be maintaining an unimaginable weight.
He supports that weight on two legs and stands.
He fights while standing.
Living like that, his knee joints would go out,
he'd use crutches, and eventually might have to crawl.
Well, it's a movie anyway.
There was an old movie where a cockroach became as big as a person and ate people.
A cockroach is an insect, right.
Unlike other animals, insects don't have bones like a spine.
Instead, their bodies are covered on the outside with chitin,
which maintains the insect's body and serves like a spine.
If a cockroach became hundreds of times larger and as big as a human,
I remember what some doctor said before,
the weight of the internal organs would become too heavy,
and the chitin surrounding the body couldn't support it, they said.
So,
if an actual insect became extremely large,
the chitin acting as bones couldn't withstand the weight,
it would ultimately die, is what I'm saying.
At the circus or these days since many people keep pets,
I often see dogs walking on two legs standing up because they're cute.
But dogs have O-shaped legs.
If they walk upright for a long time,
their joints inevitably become strained.
We clap because it looks cute,
but it could actually be very harmful to the dogs, is what I'm saying.
It's the same with people, I think.
People living in hot Southeast Asian countries mostly have big eyes.
The big reason is,
because it's a hot country,
their eyes evolved that way to expel heat from the eyeballs as quickly as possible.
Mongolians have small eyes and their pupils don't show much to the outside.
It's for the same reason.
Because they live in cold regions,
to prevent heat loss from the eyeballs, they evolved to expose their pupils as little as possible to the outside,
is what they did.
What I'm trying to say by going on like this is,
a person's appearance and body structure,
if they're not born with special problems from birth,
are formed to fit that person's body and their environment.
For example,
a person who grew to be 160cm tall,
with the help of science and technology (?)
if we could stretch the body and lengthen the legs, people would love it.
A man who is 160cm becomes 180cm,
then probably everyone would want the help of science.
But,
The heart of a person born at 160cm
undoubtedly operates according to that size.
If one day they become 180cm tall,
their heart would need to pump more blood than it has been pumping.
The heart pumps blood throughout the body,
and there's a strong possibility that it would hit capacity limits.
Ultimately, a person who becomes 180cm with the help of science
would have a higher chance of frequently experiencing anemia,
and the heart would also likely be overloaded and unable to function properly,
very much so.
What I'm saying is,
when a person is born and grows, a certain face, a certain height, etc.,
there are good reasons for maintaining all those things.
If you borrow other forces because you don't like that appearance,
and change to a different appearance from the original,
there are always many possibilities that side effects would follow, is what I'm saying.
There's a saying about the natural order.
When you eat, it should be digested and the remainder excreted—that's the natural order.
But if you eat and it all comes back up as vomit,
that goes against the natural order.
It's not just limited to the body, is it.
A person's actions, mental state,
if they're conducted according to the natural order,
there couldn't be anything better.
Since human greed knows no end,
I sometimes see people doing things against the natural order.
Rather than looking at such people with hatred and contempt,
being able to look at them with sympathy and pity is also
the natural order, if you ask me.
