"Save the Life of My Child"

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Kevin was a cannibal with a good skill set. Frodo at the Sammath Naur with his Ring-face on wasn't the picture of mental health, and Patrick gave a lot of people the creeps. But we've never watched an Elijah Wood character slide into insanity like Aaron Feller in <I>Day Zero</I>. I have a suspicion that if Patrick were put under the same strain as Aaron we might have seen it happen to him, as the two seem to have about the same level of ability to cope with life, and similarly shaky social support. It's strictly my own opinion that if Aaron - and, possibly even more importantly, Aaron's friends - hadn't been put under the stress they were, Aaron could have continued living his odd but basically sane writer's life for a long time into the future: "I would be there working at my craft, had it not been for the draft." <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >- from "To Susan on the West Coast, Waiting" by Donovan [quoted from memory]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> These pages contain spoilers. If you haven't seen the movie yet, you can purchase it here: </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="158" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#33FFCC" FRAME="BOX" RULES="COLS" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 18 WIDTH="146"><div> <I>Day Zero</I>: DVD</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 68 WIDTH="146"><div>  <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=afewworabo-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000XJ5UEE&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>  </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B>_____________________________________</B></div> <div> We can divide Aaron's story throughout the movie into several stages, marked by lines from another Sixties era song: </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/"><U>A boy sat on the ledge</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/id110.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/id110"><U>And everyone agreed 'twould be a miracle indeed if the boy survived</U></A> </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/id111.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/id111"><U>"Oh, what's becoming of the children?"</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/id112.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/id112"><U>When darkness fell...</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/id108.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/id108"><U>...he flew away</U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <A NAME="credit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>- *each page title is from "Save the Life of My Child," by Paul Simon (1968)</div> <bR> <div> Below is something new for MP3 downloads from Amazon.</div> <div> The two songs mentioned above are on these albums: "Save the Life of My Child" on <I>Bookends </I>and "To Susan on the West Coast, Waiting" on <I>Donovan's Greatest Hits</I>. Click on the arrow to get a drop-down list of songs.</div> <div> (There are traditional links for <I>Bookends </I>on the last page of <I>Day Zero</I> screencaps.)</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="353" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 75 ><NOBR><div>  <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab" id="Player_20255c2e-07e6-4b9f-9e37-edc9c398b123" WIDTH="160px" HEIGHT="300px"> <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fafewworabo-20%2F8014%2F20255c2e-07e6-4b9f-9e37-edc9c398b123&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate"><PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"><PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"><embed src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fafewworabo-20%2F8014%2F20255c2e-07e6-4b9f-9e37-edc9c398b123&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate" id="Player_20255c2e-07e6-4b9f-9e37-edc9c398b123" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="Player_20255c2e-07e6-4b9f-9e37-edc9c398b123" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="300px" width="160px"></embed></OBJECT> <NOSCRIPT><A HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fafewworabo-20%2F8014%2F20255c2e-07e6-4b9f-9e37-edc9c398b123&Operation=NoScript">Amazon.com Widgets</A></NOSCRIPT>  </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div>  <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab" id="Player_262f91c9-ab7d-49d0-a7d7-6d116ee7701c" WIDTH="160px" HEIGHT="300px"> <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fafewworabo-20%2F8014%2F262f91c9-ab7d-49d0-a7d7-6d116ee7701c&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate"><PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"><PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"><embed src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fafewworabo-20%2F8014%2F262f91c9-ab7d-49d0-a7d7-6d116ee7701c&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate" id="Player_262f91c9-ab7d-49d0-a7d7-6d116ee7701c" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="Player_262f91c9-ab7d-49d0-a7d7-6d116ee7701c" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="300px" width="160px"></embed></OBJECT> <NOSCRIPT><A HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fafewworabo-20%2F8014%2F262f91c9-ab7d-49d0-a7d7-6d116ee7701c&Operation=NoScript">Amazon.com Widgets</A></NOSCRIPT>  </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/dayzero/"><U><IMG SRC="b6583330.jpg" border=0 width="131" height="51" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/ejw/id106.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/ejw/id106.htm"><U>See general comments on this movie. </U></A></div> <bR> <div> The background on this page is made from the lights outside Aaron's window at night. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id107_m.htm" TITLE="Save the Life of My Child"><U><IMG SRC="b5e6f2b0.jpg" border=0 width="111" height="43" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>