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Heath Ledger - A Victim of Perfection

Perfection is a lousy teacher. I won't generally recommend anyone to chase for it and neither do any sages or shamans or philosophers would suggest. It's the castle built in the air. You can never reside in it. Though it seems to be appealing, if chased will eventually destroy you. Perhaps its a mirage. You feel like you can attain it but put your whole life to it and the only thing you can ever have is a drop from the ocean of it. I don't know what makes one lead an unhappy life but chasing perfection will certainly do and yet few of us fall victim to the beauty of perfection. No matter whats on the stake they set out to chase for it. They are so obsessed with their art that the perfection seems the only salvation for them and one of those obsessed artists was Heath Ledger, a charismatic intense and
mesmerizing actor. An actor who literally used to cease his reality gets into the characters. The roles that he played might be fictitious for us but for him, it was an alternate reality and in one of his
most remarkable characters - the Joker, he didn't just scare us but literally showed us what is the epitome of acting could be.
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And then the clock ticks ticks ticks- guess what? Heath is found dead in his house months after finishing the Dark Knight movie. Curious as everyone, what caused his death? I mean not to mention the loss the film industry suffered. How a person who was so vibrant and energetic on screen could vanish away like this at such a young age? Well according to his medical report he died of cardiac arrest that was caused by the overdose of a combination of prescription medications but that's what the autopsy of his body proved. What was going inside of his soul is still vague.
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Heath really was an intense actor. For him, characters were not the means to seek fame and fortune but rather a way to express himself. You might not know but he had quite a few time rejected big-budget epic movies like Spider-man, Alexandra to work in a small budget independent feature films where he could actually explore himself with the characters. He used to put himself through and through to get into the characters. For instance, to play the part of Joker he locked himself inside of a room for months experimenting with his voices and facial expressions. He even meditated to evoke dark side inside of him. He was even keeping journals of his thoughts and moods to take inspiration for the character and this is typical of Heath for any movie. He used to immerse himself with the character to take it to a whole new level but such devotion towards work comes with a cost.
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Recommended Book "The Denial of Death"


Heath inadvertently was compromising with his physical existence and his health. Such a perfectionist on the reel was ironically getting very fragile in real life. He was suffering from anxiety, pain, suffering from insomnia. His head was constantly ruminating about things. He was getting restless day by day. He was kind of sleeping for just two hours, taking medication and pills on the top of that and then one day he puts an end to all suffering once and for all but not before giving us one of the most stellar performances of all time as a "Joker".

read more - Chester Bennington - Why Artists commit Suicide

If you have seen the movie Black Swan probably you could connect to Heath's life in a better way. In the movie Black Swan Nina Sayers, the lead character, to play the Black Swan part- to get the perfection in the Black Swan -to evoke a evilness inside of her she lets herself go to such an extent that she never comes back once the play is over. She's dead and gone. It's the point where you inflate your soul through your work to such a degree that your physical body fails to meet the need of your soul. You will enlighten your soul to such an extent that it ends up burning your physical body and your soul slips through emancipating itself from this mortal cage. So it's not always excellence you meet while chasing perfection sometimes you meet your own death. So be cautious while casing perfection because sometimes perfection demands the demise and no matter what Heath Ledger is one of my favorite actors and will always be. Such devotion towards works is so captivating to me. I like him I really do.


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