re: #529 buzzsawmonkey

I look at every film for script, plot, performance—and for its subtext. Every film is a product of its own time, and every film says something about its time and about the progression of thoughts and attitudes, whether it intends to or not.

You can, for instance, trace the disillusionment of Americans with scientists and the government through monster and sci-fi movies, from the essentially benign view of scientists, and belief in the government’s ability to deal with threats, in films like “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” “The Thing,” “Them,” and the original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” to a belief that scientists are fools and government for the most part ineffectual when it is not actively malevolent in more recent movies.

It’s very interesting, and sometimes rather disheartening.

I always thought it a shame that the movie musical genre went thoonk (for the most part). Still love watching the oldies. Took in Funny Face over the weekend. Great stuff.