Posted on 05/02/2004 7:29:42 PM PDT by Rose in RoseBear
Is anyone else watching this dreck? It's so horrid it's funny.
If you're watching, please share observations ...
You said it! I just hope that watching this doesn't make me think of it whenever I watch Smallville now--shudder!
It was worth it to end the film.
LOL! It'd be even more appropros if it were grilled Swiss cheese: to symbolize all the holes in the plot.
Agreed.
[Backing away slowly from Tick] "That's very clever. . .MoooooOOOOMMMMMM!!!"
Physically--but the mental scars may never heal.
Have a good night! :)
This was a highly sobering film. It focused on the dangerous faultlines that run beneath our sight. They separate our world of civility from a world of barbarism. The slightest slip or shift will result in chaos, destruction, mayhem, and devastation. We forget that these faultlines are present, but they are always there, far below the surface, representing our sources of tension.
The references were not obvious. In 10.5, the built-up continental tension exploded into a furious onslaught that let loose literal oceans of salt water to quench the thirsty deserts, currently suffering from a historical drought, and rejuvenating the American Southwest with a revived spirituality.
As the quakes revealed themselves, crevices opened up in the earth. These were not just splits in rock, however. These crevices represented gigantic vaginas and their power, greatly feared by men. Unlike other powerful earthquakes, this mother of all tremors was not an 8 or a 9, but was a number much more "threatening," shall we say, to the male establishment: 10.5.
The incredible, scornful feminine anger unleashed could not be stopped even by the great lesbian scientist-midwife, Kim Delaney, who represents a female shaman who attempts to heal the planet's spiritual rifts. Ultimately, the ferocious tension could not be stifled, even using mankind's most deadly arsenal and most arrogant extension of his manhood: the nuclear bomb.
This movie was a profound statement about America's deep fear of the "vagina dentata" backbite it is earning by resisting gay marriage, and also about the "fundagelical" worry about being swallowed up by the fire pits of Hell for its infernal drive to fight "terrorists."
Clearly this movie represents the American male's sense of fear as the empire he has built has begun to crumble. This country feels surrounded by scornful womanly genitals, and as it has been emasculated by 9/11, and feels unmanned, deprived of working equipment that can provide a response, like it has no ability to mate up. Thus the need to halt gay marriage is not really about protecting children, but the need to not feel inadequate. This also explains why American men are obsessed these days with Levitra, Viagra, and anything else that can restore their "vitality." They had better find something fast, for Mother Earth is angry about the oil wars, and she must be fertilized quickly so that a new sensibility can be born, and a renewed world peace can be birthed.
(This has been an Instant Parody (tm). For regular write-ups of this kind, I recommend Ms. Dowd's regular column.)
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