Peak Guardian

[Apech]

I nearly pissed my self laughing reading this article:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/03/wizard-of-oz-donald-trump-united-states#comment-123265586

 

 

The Wizard of Oz is a grotesque predictor of Trump’s America

 

a couple of quotes:

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L Frank Baum’s original novel was written in 1900 and the film was made in 1939. Yet all the themes of Trump’s America are there. We can read the catastrophic effects of climate change into the tornado that sets the narrative off, see the opioid crisis in the characters’ drugged sleep in Oz’s Powell and Pressburger-esque poppy field, and empathise with the mangy Lion, rusty Tin Man and understuffed Scarecrow’s search for organ donors and reliable medical support in an Oz without a solid welfare state.

 

Dorothy’s family life with her aunt and uncle in Kansas resembles Dorothea Lange photographs of rural poverty. Dorothy and her relatives are skinny, careworn, shabbily dressed, their house and outbuildings peeling. The monochrome scenes are in a washed-out grey, not a stylish noir. Dorothy is isolated. She has no friends her own age and does not meet other children on her adventure.


Despite the munchkins’ evident civic pride, the values of Oz are not much different from those of Kansas in 1900 or 1939 or 2018. Yes, the Wicked Witch of the West has all the best lines and the chewiest performance, by Margaret Hamilton, but the film revels in the violent deaths of “ugly” women, who have houses dumped on them or drown in water that melts them like acid, while the greatest deceiver, the Wizard, simply shrugs and floats away at the end of the film.

 

 

 

[Taoist Texts]

bidisha really really hates dorothy

[Apech]

6 minutes ago, Taoist Texts said:

bidisha really really hates dorothy

 

internalised misogyny obviously

[Apech]

 

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[Taoist Texts]

 

[zerostao]

Of course there are changes in Oz

but

Oz does not change