Rufus Deakin never made it as an actor.
He only has one IMDB credit
"Little boy with balloons." But Rufus here is an underdog.
In life there are moments when we realize normality isn't always the norm.
As a young child leaving the local Target store...I became fascinated with a woman asking for change. We passed by her and I offered her what little change 6 year old me had....As my mom put our purchases away I asked her for change and I went back and gave her more....I did this about 3 more times. Now you would see this as a sure fire sign of a child geared towards altruistic tendencies. A frood who really has his head together and will act in the interest of some greater good....Ok I mean that sort of ended up being the case...But that's not the point. The moral orel of it all is that the lady was bizzare.
I remember she was hunched over, and missing teeth and well...I liked her. When you gave her change she bestowed a lot of blessings on you and acted like you had just given her a hundred dollars. We're raised to expect the world to function in a very specific order...From the way we are raised to believe family units work (mommy and a daddy) to how nestle brand chocolate mix goes best with milk and ONLY milk (that one might actually be true...I mean soy milk though...how many people are raised with soy?).
Around this time I became enamored with this show called "That's incredible"
Now I never really got why I was so fascinated with things like ghost, etc. My dad (while being a devout christian) made fun of me for some of my beliefs. It's wasn't till I discovered John Waters movies (more on that some other time) that I realized what it was I found fascinating.
See life we are told is black and white...It isn't. There's all sorts of variables and twist and turns and sometimes you have plans that aren't actualized, and sometimes you find you're not the person you were raised to be.
Sometimes the party takes you to places you didn't count on going.
But more importantly at some point in time you realize that stranger danger applies to everyone not just old men sitting alone in a playground with an ice cream cone. And maybe it was one specific incident or moment. For me it was that lady in the target store...But Rufus Deakin plays a character who...I don't think is every fully used in cinema. Rufus plays "Little boy with balloons" a child who loses his childlike innocence of the world through a realization that it's a very strange and bizarre place full of strange and bizzare people. Of american men claiming to be bush thieves
of american men with no clothes (possibly even the first american he ever encountered!)
...And Was David jewish? Maybe that was a first too.
We cut away right after his statement to her mother with her shockingly stating "What?" if ever you wanted the camera to linger just a few more minutes it would be at THAT moment. This potential moment which can be viewed as a follow up to "the red balloon" though shows us that even those odd people we meet have their own layers, like onions. You peel back the naked american man craving latex and you get a werewolf (he became a werewolf in London so it shouldn't be "an american werewolf in..." since that implies he became a werewolf stateside and then went to London....but don't get me started on that). It's a big world out there and we've all been Rufus Deakin at one time or another. At least only the ones who are truly alive realized that things can get a little strange sometimes.
And there ain't anything wrong with that
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