Disney's The Haunted Mansion: The Most Dangerous Film of All-Time
Let me just start up by clearing something up, this film is not an exploitation film. Anyone that watches it based on that assumption is missing the whole idea of the movie. Director Rob Minkoff made this film as an indictment of society, culture, and history. The film is about fascism, neo-fascism, and capitalism, and the images on the screen are not to be taken at face value, but as metaphors for contemporary society, politics and Disney's award-winning "Walt Disney World"(TM) attraction of the same name. The sexual depravity shown on the screen, the coprophagy, the torture, it is all symbolic.
For example, the children in the film are forced to eat excrement becuase Minkoff believed that contemporary culture and society was excrement, and thus was force feeding us, the consumer, with excrement. Let me tell you, he had a real tough one getting that past Disney's censors.
The most interesting aspect of this film is that Minkoff, a homosexual, linked homosexuality with death and fascism. Why after portraying homosexuality in a beautiful way in his earlier works did Minkoff change his tune, nobody knows. Some think he lost his mind while making this movie, others think that top Disney execs forced his hand on this issue. What the truth is will never be known.
Many don't like the film because Minkoff makes the victims out to be emotionless and doesn't allow us to pity them. But thats just what he wanted! By watching the movie, we are like the victims, allowing ourselves to be abused and also being a spectator to abuse. Again, everything in this film is done for a reason. Eddie Murphy's brilliant performance adds to it's genius.
Before watching this film you should be familiar with de Sade, Dante's Inferno, and have some basic understanding of fascism and its history. If you lack any of these three elements, don't watch the movie because you will not get it at all. Again, don't watch this movie at face value. It is one of the sickest, most disturbing films ever made, and it is that way for a reason. Not for shock value or to get banned in country after country, but to make a statement. This film is so dangerous that it is believed by many that Minkoff was assassinated for making it. If everyone got this movie, the world would be in deep trouble.
For example, the children in the film are forced to eat excrement becuase Minkoff believed that contemporary culture and society was excrement, and thus was force feeding us, the consumer, with excrement. Let me tell you, he had a real tough one getting that past Disney's censors.
The most interesting aspect of this film is that Minkoff, a homosexual, linked homosexuality with death and fascism. Why after portraying homosexuality in a beautiful way in his earlier works did Minkoff change his tune, nobody knows. Some think he lost his mind while making this movie, others think that top Disney execs forced his hand on this issue. What the truth is will never be known.
Many don't like the film because Minkoff makes the victims out to be emotionless and doesn't allow us to pity them. But thats just what he wanted! By watching the movie, we are like the victims, allowing ourselves to be abused and also being a spectator to abuse. Again, everything in this film is done for a reason. Eddie Murphy's brilliant performance adds to it's genius.
Before watching this film you should be familiar with de Sade, Dante's Inferno, and have some basic understanding of fascism and its history. If you lack any of these three elements, don't watch the movie because you will not get it at all. Again, don't watch this movie at face value. It is one of the sickest, most disturbing films ever made, and it is that way for a reason. Not for shock value or to get banned in country after country, but to make a statement. This film is so dangerous that it is believed by many that Minkoff was assassinated for making it. If everyone got this movie, the world would be in deep trouble.
posted by Monkspider at 9:34 PM
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