Freud And Fraser
Watched "Blast From The Past" a couple of nights ago. Scared me more than any horror movie on the show. It's so thick in Oedipal complex that Norman Bates would shudder.
But first, a few side notes before I delve into the darkness and sick sexual journey that is "Blast From The Past".This movie is racist. The only non-white characters are a Pakistani porno shop owner, and a fat black mamma with a lot of "sass".
And on another note, why does Hollywood feel the need to make gay characters omniscient about relationships? A person I know says that gay characters know both masculine and feminine traits, but how does this make them any less knowledgeable? I could know what Geroge Bush is aiming for and what John Kerry is aiming for, but that does not make me a political afficionado. It makes me knowledgeable, yes, but far less knowledgeable than gay characters are presented. They're just as screwed up as we are when it comes to relationships, except they screw members of their own sex.
All right, here's the plot. I urge small children to leave. Adam is born into a bomb shelter, raised there until he's 35. The only female contact he has is with his mother. He is then sent into the world to get supplies for his sick, twisted family.
He has many traits of repressed homosexuality - a reluctance to sexual relations with women, clean cut, awkward manners, cute little phrases, and all the other tell tale signs. He is, by all accounts, a man child. And the shedding of the Oedipal Complex is one of the tell tales signs of entering adolesence and leaving childhood, according to Freud.
He meets up with Eve, a woman that bosses him around, guides him, and tells him what to do in the world. He is his second mother figure.
Then, an interesting juxtaposition happens. Adam sees two attractive girls - the first attractive girls he's seen besides Eve - wave to him. His dark sexual journey begins. In a clever disguising, the director then goes directly to him "noticing" the ocean for the first time. But he was on the beach; surely he must have suspected that there was an ocean there? Because the fact of the matter is that he's not noticing the ocean, he's noticing the wide world of woman. Afterwards, from the script, "Adam tosses off his roller-blades and walks trance-like" towards the ocean. He then "dives in", shouting out for joy. But the true observer can see he's not jumping for joy for being in the ocean first time, but for his sexual awakening. One almost expects Fraser to yell, "Pussy!" Or whatever they called it back in the 50s, which is where he's from.
Then, Adam delves further into his sick sexual journey. He asks Mother/Eve for help, and she directs him to a club. In this club that's very darkly lit, where everybody wears black - representing the dark side of sexuality, the unknown, the forbidden. He picks up a chick that mother/Eve frowns upon, and afterward, begins a three way "dance session". Swing was noticed for its sexualization of dance, as opposed to the staid standards of yesteryear. He begins swing dancing with the two females, a technique he learned from his mother. This whole scene is an obvious expression of the forbidden pleasurable fruits of a subtextual menage a trois. Mother/Eve watches all the while, jealous.
However, after going home with another woman, Adam's impotence shows up - he just can't get it on with that lady, and goes straight home to Mother/Eve. He apologizes when Mother/Eve gets "angry" (or at least, what he perceives to be anger) at his impotence. Afterwards, Fraser and Silverstone admit their love in a kiss. The Oedipal complex has come full circle. He is substituted his real mother for a surrogate one. But the story has not reached its infernal climax, and so I must continue, though I wish I would not have to.
After this, Adam admits his story of living in the bomb shelter. The authorities come to pick him up for the loony he is, although not in the sense that they believe. When Eve insists that he goes, he says, "...All right, Eve [mother], if you say so." Feeling betrayed, he escapes, going back to his original mother.
Basically, everything works out, and Adam and Eve agree to get married. They are left with what one broker calls "The Garden of Eden", the sick sexual universe Adam has created for himself. With his Mother/Eve/wife at his side, he is free to live in his perversity, along with his real mother, who lives within their property.
So...romantic comedy or perverted sexual journey? I urge you to make the judgement for yourself. Just remember, if you spent thirty plus years with just your parents, you'd end up pretty fucked up, too.
Eve - Why would you put a fallout shelter under a porno shop?
Ev - Waarom had u een fallout schuilplaats onder een porno winkel gezet?
But first, a few side notes before I delve into the darkness and sick sexual journey that is "Blast From The Past".This movie is racist. The only non-white characters are a Pakistani porno shop owner, and a fat black mamma with a lot of "sass".
And on another note, why does Hollywood feel the need to make gay characters omniscient about relationships? A person I know says that gay characters know both masculine and feminine traits, but how does this make them any less knowledgeable? I could know what Geroge Bush is aiming for and what John Kerry is aiming for, but that does not make me a political afficionado. It makes me knowledgeable, yes, but far less knowledgeable than gay characters are presented. They're just as screwed up as we are when it comes to relationships, except they screw members of their own sex.
All right, here's the plot. I urge small children to leave. Adam is born into a bomb shelter, raised there until he's 35. The only female contact he has is with his mother. He is then sent into the world to get supplies for his sick, twisted family.
He has many traits of repressed homosexuality - a reluctance to sexual relations with women, clean cut, awkward manners, cute little phrases, and all the other tell tale signs. He is, by all accounts, a man child. And the shedding of the Oedipal Complex is one of the tell tales signs of entering adolesence and leaving childhood, according to Freud.
He meets up with Eve, a woman that bosses him around, guides him, and tells him what to do in the world. He is his second mother figure.
Then, an interesting juxtaposition happens. Adam sees two attractive girls - the first attractive girls he's seen besides Eve - wave to him. His dark sexual journey begins. In a clever disguising, the director then goes directly to him "noticing" the ocean for the first time. But he was on the beach; surely he must have suspected that there was an ocean there? Because the fact of the matter is that he's not noticing the ocean, he's noticing the wide world of woman. Afterwards, from the script, "Adam tosses off his roller-blades and walks trance-like" towards the ocean. He then "dives in", shouting out for joy. But the true observer can see he's not jumping for joy for being in the ocean first time, but for his sexual awakening. One almost expects Fraser to yell, "Pussy!" Or whatever they called it back in the 50s, which is where he's from.
Then, Adam delves further into his sick sexual journey. He asks Mother/Eve for help, and she directs him to a club. In this club that's very darkly lit, where everybody wears black - representing the dark side of sexuality, the unknown, the forbidden. He picks up a chick that mother/Eve frowns upon, and afterward, begins a three way "dance session". Swing was noticed for its sexualization of dance, as opposed to the staid standards of yesteryear. He begins swing dancing with the two females, a technique he learned from his mother. This whole scene is an obvious expression of the forbidden pleasurable fruits of a subtextual menage a trois. Mother/Eve watches all the while, jealous.
However, after going home with another woman, Adam's impotence shows up - he just can't get it on with that lady, and goes straight home to Mother/Eve. He apologizes when Mother/Eve gets "angry" (or at least, what he perceives to be anger) at his impotence. Afterwards, Fraser and Silverstone admit their love in a kiss. The Oedipal complex has come full circle. He is substituted his real mother for a surrogate one. But the story has not reached its infernal climax, and so I must continue, though I wish I would not have to.
After this, Adam admits his story of living in the bomb shelter. The authorities come to pick him up for the loony he is, although not in the sense that they believe. When Eve insists that he goes, he says, "...All right, Eve [mother], if you say so." Feeling betrayed, he escapes, going back to his original mother.
Basically, everything works out, and Adam and Eve agree to get married. They are left with what one broker calls "The Garden of Eden", the sick sexual universe Adam has created for himself. With his Mother/Eve/wife at his side, he is free to live in his perversity, along with his real mother, who lives within their property.
So...romantic comedy or perverted sexual journey? I urge you to make the judgement for yourself. Just remember, if you spent thirty plus years with just your parents, you'd end up pretty fucked up, too.
Eve - Why would you put a fallout shelter under a porno shop?
Ev - Waarom had u een fallout schuilplaats onder een porno winkel gezet?
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