In short: feminists, lesbians, white man bad but all blacks (men and women) are good, the south is eeeebiiilll, the law is corrupt, ACAB, "cannibalism is ok as long as it is punishment", "single mothers are better than a stable family", etc, etc.
Nothing new, art house of the 80s was Hollywood of the 90s. There was that crappy angel falls in love with a human movie which is crazy sacrilegious. American History X, which had “white supremacists” terrorizing Koreans in California…. Boyz in da Hood and Menace To Society which glorified ghetto culture. The Malcolm X whitewashed movie. Amistad with it’s crazy revisionist history. On and on…
But then, they also misrepresent Purgatory, and spread the nonsense that dead human souls "become" angels (they're a totally different kingdom of critter, basically.)
Maybe redo Highway to Heaven with the above-mentioned angels ...
If we're going by Bible canon, there are numerous examples of that video's first entry: angels taking human form and walking with man. The whole backstory of the fallen nature of satan and his demons is that they were angels that wanted to mate with human women. So Travolta's Michael may very well be sacrilegious but it's not completely out of line with biblical stories. Same with Highway to Heaven. Though I agree a hitchhiking Ophanim travelling around the country getting odd jobs and telling people their life is worth living is a funny image.
Not generally a fan of Benji Shapiro, but his book 'Primetime Propaganda' is worth a read if you want to see how conniving and devious Hollywood has been for decades now. McCarthy was right all along.
Yea I remember that and in the book I hear those two women were lovers. But when I saw it in the 90s this message wasn’t constantly pushed. At least not that I saw
There's a Swedish movie called "As It Is In Heaven" which covers most of this same subject matter (sort of), but in a more contemporary setting, and way, way better...
No lesbians per se, but the whole "rural domestic abuse", bullies, discrimination, etc. - a lot of the same... Tropes, I guess.
I think my emotional reaction to that is the same as a lot of people's apparent reaction when watching "Tomatoes" for the first time, so that's... Interesting.
It's just not so... "On the nose" about it, if you ask me. Or maybe it's a cultural difference? Not sure.
Maybe Swedes find the stereotypes in "Heaven" as jarring as I find the stereotypes in "Tomatoes" (as an outsider, but knowing people from both places). Maybe not. But certainly... I found "Tomatoes" much harder to sit through, at least personally, lol...
While it still exists (it's been erased off Youtube, and this was essentially the only "original", at least for the audio, that I could find):
https://vimeo.com/474549641
This is probably one of the two most important bits from the movie, and it's the, uhh, abused woman, singing about freedom, naturally.
I found that quite moving, at the time (yes, it's in Swedish. And yes, subtitles lol).
In short: feminists, lesbians, white man bad but all blacks (men and women) are good, the south is eeeebiiilll, the law is corrupt, ACAB, "cannibalism is ok as long as it is punishment", "single mothers are better than a stable family", etc, etc.
Jesus, 90s Hollywood...
Nothing new, art house of the 80s was Hollywood of the 90s. There was that crappy angel falls in love with a human movie which is crazy sacrilegious. American History X, which had “white supremacists” terrorizing Koreans in California…. Boyz in da Hood and Menace To Society which glorified ghetto culture. The Malcolm X whitewashed movie. Amistad with it’s crazy revisionist history. On and on…
They should make a movie with Bible-accurate angels.
But then, they also misrepresent Purgatory, and spread the nonsense that dead human souls "become" angels (they're a totally different kingdom of critter, basically.)
Maybe redo Highway to Heaven with the above-mentioned angels ...
If we're going by Bible canon, there are numerous examples of that video's first entry: angels taking human form and walking with man. The whole backstory of the fallen nature of satan and his demons is that they were angels that wanted to mate with human women. So Travolta's Michael may very well be sacrilegious but it's not completely out of line with biblical stories. Same with Highway to Heaven. Though I agree a hitchhiking Ophanim travelling around the country getting odd jobs and telling people their life is worth living is a funny image.
Not generally a fan of Benji Shapiro, but his book 'Primetime Propaganda' is worth a read if you want to see how conniving and devious Hollywood has been for decades now. McCarthy was right all along.
Yea I remember that and in the book I hear those two women were lovers. But when I saw it in the 90s this message wasn’t constantly pushed. At least not that I saw
There's a Swedish movie called "As It Is In Heaven" which covers most of this same subject matter (sort of), but in a more contemporary setting, and way, way better...
No lesbians per se, but the whole "rural domestic abuse", bullies, discrimination, etc. - a lot of the same... Tropes, I guess.
I think my emotional reaction to that is the same as a lot of people's apparent reaction when watching "Tomatoes" for the first time, so that's... Interesting.
It's just not so... "On the nose" about it, if you ask me. Or maybe it's a cultural difference? Not sure.
Maybe Swedes find the stereotypes in "Heaven" as jarring as I find the stereotypes in "Tomatoes" (as an outsider, but knowing people from both places). Maybe not. But certainly... I found "Tomatoes" much harder to sit through, at least personally, lol...
While it still exists (it's been erased off Youtube, and this was essentially the only "original", at least for the audio, that I could find): https://vimeo.com/474549641
This is probably one of the two most important bits from the movie, and it's the, uhh, abused woman, singing about freedom, naturally.
I found that quite moving, at the time (yes, it's in Swedish. And yes, subtitles lol).