Saturday, May 27, 2017
Don't get trumped by it: this film is full of hope against bullies
GEORGE ROMERO – STEPHEN KING –
CREEPSHOW – 1982
The film hasn’t changed one iota since 1982 and what’s more
it does not seem to have aged too much. Special effects maybe, but that’s about
all. The stories are absolutely funny more than frightening. They might have
been gross and frightening in 1982 but today we are used to that kind of make-believe
cinema.
Every single story or moment is pleasure and nothing but
pleasure.
The Prologue and epilogue are so nice about the abusive
father and the voodoo son, Stephen King’s own son by the way. Let’s think his
father wasn’t that kind of a father. But you may be surprised if you really
analyzed the “rapport” between a father and a son. Abusiveness is at times in
excess gentleness.
"Father's Day” is the hilarious vengeance of an old and
decrepit father killed by his own daughter: the vengeance comes from the grave,
from beyond the grave. Never ever neglect celebrating father’s day even for a
father who does not deserve it.
"The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" with Stephen
King in the main and only human role is even more than funny with his meteor that
brings some kind of invasive green algae, fungus or whatever from outer space. Nothing
to do with Superman, nor Aliens actually. The only solution is to evade the
invasion by committing suicide I guess, slightly like a terrorist blows himself
up in order to kill as many miscreants as possible to clean up the world of its
perversion. The world is clean for the terrorist for sure after his own
sacrifice.
"Something to Tide You Over" is even more than
hilarious because of another case of vengeance from beyond the grave and in
this case the grave is the sea itself. I am not sure Stephen King intended this
story to be hilarious but it is true that since Michael Jackson living dead
creeping out of their graves and chasing you have become very entertaining.
"The Crate" is nothing but justice or some just
vengeance or some just balancing of grievances in a married couple. Don’t let
children watch that one: they could get some good idea of how to take care of
an invasive mother who does not know what a bathroom or toilet door is when her
son is using these facilities, or who does not know why she is not supposed to
look under her son’s bed. That’s when the monster in the closet is really
useful, and should be cultivated, for such sons: let it come out and take care
of the mother. It is all the same when the son has become a husband and the
mother has become a wife since all husbands choose their wives to correspond to
what their mothers were. How can you be so pessimistic? But that is no
pessimism: it is pure truth and reality.
"They're Creeping Up on You" is the final touch
about some rich man who is obnoxious with everyone and at the same time is
obsessed with cleanliness and his germless and bugless environment. That is a
killing obsession and the bugs will always have the last word and bring justice
to the poor. You can imagine what I may dream about the fate of Trump who
should be trumped by bugs and mulched by germs.
And the epilogue gives us hope: all nasty people will sooner
or later be trumped and mulched into oblivion and inexistence
1- beyond
making friends with nasty Sunni dictators or autocrats;
2- beyond
making fun of the Pope by being a grinning giant puppet next to the serious
look of this grave charismatic religious leader;
3- beyond
pushing some Prime Minister out of his right way to be in the front of the
family picture;
4- beyond
chastising 23 out of 28 of his allies and trying to bully them into paying for
his own bills to make America great again;
5- beyond
his gripping handshake that a French President turned into a gripping-back
handshake that he could not escape anymore;
6- beyond
his leaking confidential details of a criminal investigation in a terrorist
attack in Manchester;
7- beyond
his attempt to sink any climate agreement, including the one in Paris, for his
egotistic promises to completely failed professions overdue in their coming to
their own end;
8- beyond
his sending 23 million people out of insurance coverage;
9- beyond
his cutting federal funds for Medicaid by 50% and food stamps by 25% just to be
able to cut the taxes of the wealthiest in proportion.
And NINE is of course the apocalypse, the dragon, the beast
and we are all the pregnant woman escaping this Babylon RED(RUM) Witch Doctor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYgOlqinH7A
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ttGgIQpAUc)
of a President.
Yes There is hope beyond the worst possible horror story in
real life and that’s what makes Romero’s film and Stephen King’s stories so
beautifully good, funny and true to life down to our deepest guts.
When These masters of literature and the cinema die we will
have to reinvent them under a new skin. It is true Stephen King leaves two sons
beyond himself, though they do not have the same level of creativity as the
father. But Romero is more complicated as for descent.
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 3:57 AM 
