The Mask

We have watched plenty of hero movies since we were small. Now the hero movies have been brought out with a better graphical effect. The enjoyment of watching the latest movie is much better than of the past. I still remember a hero movie which is very interesting and happening. The hero in the story was not of the cool type, but in fact he was an extremely crazy troublemaker throughout the story. Everything was messed up by the hero, and that was really a special story line different from many typical hero movies. The movie is called – The Mask.

In the story, the main character is an ordinary guy who longs for love and doing big things but he is not masculine and bold at all. Instead he is very skinny and weak with a kind and pure heart. He accidentally picked up a mysterious wooden mask from a river when he was trying to rescue a man at the river. (He thought someone was drowned, but that was actually a mass of rubbish floating on the river.) Eventually, he got the mask sticking on his face, and he turned to be an insane troublemaker.

Mask is the thing that I want to talk about in this sharing. I believe that many legendary supernatural heroes that people have created mostly are masked. For instance, Spiderman, Batman, Green lantern and Ironman are masked with their own masks which are uniquely designed for them. But I found their enemies are also the same, they got a mask on their face as well. For instance, Green Globin in Spider-Man comic and joker (joker’s face) in Batman Comic do not reveal their original face at all. The reason of covering their face is quite an interesting topic to be discussed about.

In my opinion, I found that mask got a function to cover the weakness. By covering the facial expression, no one would be able to understand you and find out your weakness easily. By being apparently emotionless, it makes you looking unbeatable and invincible. For instance, the joker kept smiling in the movie, while the batman was beating him with hard punches on his face relentlessly. It feels like the joker did not fear to be killed, and the batman was about to kill him without a blink of his eyes. Definitely, they felt painful for being punched, but they never want to express the pain with their face.

Apart from that, covering your face with a mask can turn you to be someone else. I still remember in The Amazing Spiderman, the moment when a boy was being coaxed by Spiderman to escape from a burning car hanging in the air. Spiderman gave his mask to him, and made the boy to be courageous, move and escape from the danger, because the mask means something powerful to the boy for the boy knew that the guy with that red mask is strong enough to defeat many monsters and enemies. He would believe that the mask is the source of power and the spring of courage.

Nowadays, I found many people wearing masks in their daily life. It makes them being protected and accepted by other people. For instance, some may be just wearing an invisible joker mask to be an amusing entertainer in a group of people, but in fact, they do want other people to understand the real inner self of them. It is quite contradictory for wanting other to understand you truly, while being scared of revealing your real inner self by removing the mask from your face. If you want to get some superficial relationship with other people, the mask is just appropriately useful enough. But if you do want other people to understand you well, it is time to consider keeping your mask into your drawer for a period of time and revealing your real and original face to the people you would like them to understand you.