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Inky (1982)
Animal
Tagline: "I don't care that he's just sitting beside a power pellet, I'm going to waltz right over there and OH SHIT HE ATE IT EVERYBODY RUN." Plot summary: Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la A Christmas Carol). Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into Eddie's own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.
I think it's really depressing that the "Five People Pac-Man Meets in Heaven" are dead criminals who want to kill him every time he goes out for a pretzel or piece of fruit. (more) User Comments: When the Pac-Man ghosts all originally "died" they carried on their personalities; Clyde maintained his gangster dialect, Sue maintained her femininity, and so on. Something inside of Blinky's head must've went wrong, like the "The Enemy Within" episode of Star Trek where the transporter messes up and splits Kirk in two, and then they've got Savage Kirk running around on the ship endangering everyone with impromptu judo chopping/tambourine talk-singing. Inky died and came out the other side deflicted, and now whenever the ghosts are plotting against Pac-Fam Inky just stands to the side making "durr" motions and crossing his eyes. It could have something to do with the trauma of his death, because I mean come on, the entire lower half of his body is missing. When I was a kid Inky was my favorite ghost on the show because he was funny, and because blue was my favorite color. Hey, fuck you. User Rating:
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