Posted on 02/25/2007 5:56:42 PM PST by Logic Times
The realization that Hollywood is more than just rotting cultural compost hits conservatives at different times, but there is always a moment when you suddenly and clearly see the elitist preaching buried beneath the rotting lettuce and apple cores, when the relentless effort to push leftist dogma abruptly swims into focus like the hidden image in a 3D stereogram. And like a stereogram, once you see the image within, there’s no avoiding it ever again. Much to my wife’s dismay, this has forever impaired our ability to enjoy the simple pleasure of a good movie.
With me, it was the movie Dave, some 14 years ago. In retrospect, a moronically simple plot where a good liberal double stands in for a comatose evil "conservative" president and, like a commie Midas, everything the liberal touches turns to love and peace and flowers. Lauded by critics as a "delightful social fable," Dave was the clumsy, puppyish precursor to more serious flirtations with Hollywood’s ideal president: The American President, The Contender, and TV’s West Wing.
Every movie is now like an easy-to-solve stereogram. Dads are dysfunctional, lawyers are noble, cops are crooked, criminals are heroes, corporations are evil, artists are wise, whites are racist, and Christians…well, a Hollywood Christian has an IQ in the seventies, the imagination of a bar of soap, hates everyone, and just loves hellfire and damnation, praise Jesus!
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I have not even seen one movie that was nominated for best picture. Don't care if it wins 20 awards.
It does affect your viewing. I just saw Pan's Labrynth not long ago and it is indeed a very good movie. Beautiful, tragic, hypnotic, mesmerizing, all that. But you can't help but notice that the fascists are the bad guys (well, yes, they are) and the communists are the good, noble, selfless, brave heroes (now wait a minute.)
And once you are awake to manipulation, you can never fall asleep again. In Pan's Labrynth, when the bad guys kill off the wounded after a battle, you see it. They put the gun to someone's head and BANG! you flinch as they execute victim after victim.
But a half hour later, when another skirmish ends with the communists in possession of the field, the same thing happens. The winners go around and polish off the wounded, but the camera lifts up to the sky, slowly panning across the leaves as if sighing with relief... little things like that, you notice.
So true. They use lighting, dress, angles, subtle language differences...everything in their arsenal. The thing is, it's surely mostly subliminal.
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