#tbt (but still on a monday) to the time a (very fun) christian screamo/hardcore/who knows band wrote a pretty good song (controversial, of course) about this film. sample lyric:
a chainsaw can remove a limb
or act as a replacement
which sounds supplemental in the derridean sense, and, you know, i think there’s really something to that homophony. admittedly most of the imagery here is freudian or lacanian—‘this is my father’s voice’, desperately trying to keep parental ghouls locked in…
how you treat your characters says so, so much about what you think of (and hence how you treat) people
so imagine demy (but, like, only an okay version) directed detention (but, like, only an okay version) and sprinkled on its four corners the blood of badlands (but, like, only an okay version) and wrapped the whole thing up in the hide of bojack horseman (but, like, only an okay version). i adore musicals with all my heart & mind & soul & strength so please know it is with a heavy heart (& mind etc.) i must announce: this is aggressively mediocre.…
