It's been a scary week of watching things. Here I try to quantify & qualify my fears.
Pan's Labyrinth
Reasons that it's Terrifying:
-Torture scenes
-Symptoms of Fascism
-Burning Mandrake representing a fetus
-Evil Step-Father
-The guy with the eyes in his hands that's trying to eat you.
-Gothic faun
-Smashing someone's nose with a bottle, & other intense violence
Jesus Camp
Reasons that it's Terrifying:
-George Bush talking
-8-year-old kids with a plastic fetus tied to their hands
-Rev. Ted Haggart smirking at the camera about how he knows you're gay.
-Statistics about Evangelicals in America (there's a lot of them)
-Kids chanting in unison
-A woman yearning for the good old Middle Ages when we could burn "warlocks" like Harry Potter
-Threat of eternal hellfire for unbelievers
-Kids with weird hairstyles
-Fat people
Twin Peaks Season Two (I haven't finished it all yet)
Reasons that it's Terrifying:
-Brain damaged man coming back to life & attacking his wife with an ax.
-Creepy Owls
-The South winning the Civil War
-Evil spirits named Bob
-The giant saying “It is happening again.”
-Laura's father singing Richard Rodgers songs.
-David Duchovy in a dress
-Irrelevant directionless subplots.
Life in the Undergrowth (A.K.A. The Life of Bugs with David Attenborough)
Reasons that it's Terrifying:
-Enormous centipede catching a bat in midair
-A beetle the size of a rat
-Six-foot-long earthworms
-Scorpions stinging each other while mating
-Spiders in Australia that spin three-dimensional webs
-Prehistoric huge dragonflies
-Mayflies (I hate those things)
More to come!
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2 comments:
I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard. How was your party?
What's so funny about huge insects or torture?
The party was a smashing success. Well, I wish more people had worn Maori hunting garb. There were some people in African tunics, a flapper, & I wore my finest cacti-tux. And a lot of tequila. Why weren't you there? Who are you? Aunt Clara!?
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