The boats 9th post for Idiot Savant

Does anybody that very short little scene where the first woman (his good side) and the Idiot Savant appear on stage in boats? They just walked onto stage in little foot powered fake boats? Well that doesn't make any sense at all, unless it has deeper meaning to it...... DUH, obviously this will have deeper meaning behind it.

This particular scene was pretty easy for me to understand. The whole point of the first woman coming out onto stage in a fake boat was to represent how language must be fluid. You cannot just randomly throw around sentences and words without having some sort of connection between them. Since this whole play was about getting to the Idiot Savant, using language that flowed seems to be a fairly simple concept.

I also found it interesting how they only showed the first woman using a boat and not the second woman. This was an effort to show how she was his good side and how she made the effort to connect with him. It is to make an example of her good will and all of her attempts to get through to him. She tried using language that flowed so that he would be able to understand it. Sadly this effort failed. Once she made this attempt, the Idiot Savant came onto the stage in a similar boat, only this one had some sort of a megaphone in the front of it. The Idiot Savant did this to show how he was not going to focus, he merely was mocking the first woman. Again this is another example of how an autistic child might act. They often will copy what others are doing, just as we saw Wilem Defoe's character do in this scene.

As for the megaphone, I feel that it was to make this point stand out. It was to drive home the idea to us that he was not going to listen easily. This also added to the fact that he was copying and mocking her. It merely made the scene louder and more noticeable to everyone else.