Symbolism Will Be Their Downfall
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The sheer volume of the symbolism out there still blows me away. I watch older movies with my mom. She's in her eighties and doesn't like the violence or sex. Even relatively "innocent" movies are chock full of symbolism. "Mermaids" for example. There are butterflies over the bed of the little girl. You think to yourself, "well that could be a coincidence." Then they go shoe shopping for school and a nun in the shoe store says to the little girl, "Nice red shoe." It's so odd and out of place. The girls red shoes are highlighted again shortly thereafter. In the same scene the little girl is humping one of those shopping mall rocking horses to get it to move, ostensibly. She does this for awhile before the actor Bob Hoskins kicks it into gear. Just weird out of place stuff that has no real point other than to be weird, and is clearly not a coincidence. I have already mentioned the Mrs. Doubtfire "red shoe" in the middle of the room non-coincidence. These people are everywhere apparently. My husband is totally unsurprised by this stuff but it still kind of blows me away.
Joe Pesci makes a big deal about pizza at the start of Home Alone. It’s a throwaway scene so you don’t even remember it until you know the code, then it sticks out. And in Ferris Bueller, after Jeffrey Jones mistakes that girl for Ferris and says her ass is his (sexualizing an underage girl), it cuts to a close up of a slice of pizza on the counter. Again, nothing anyone would notice unless they know the code.
crikey, they sure do love to talk about pizza in Home Alone. Ordering pizza the night before a huge trip with a huge number of people would be normal (no time to cook and clean up,) but talking about it so much really isn't.
I love the movie otherwise, but yes, you point out how this stuff is right there being normalized right in front of everyone.
So John Hughes is a pig. Not surprising I guess. McCauley Culkin is a hot mess.