36. "Agreed. " In response to In response to 35 Sun Feb-26-17 03:24 PM by MEAT
But with scream we saw what it wanted to be. There are some tropes that establish what the movie is. The nod to the audience that everything is ok in the end. Those are the box office movies. They make money and entertain us.
The art though leaves us with a feeling. And it feels like this movie wants to be both. It wants to be beautiful, and subversive, and insightful ... but then it wants us to feel ok.
But the existential dread of black people trusting white people isn't something to be ok with. The boogey man may not be a brain snatching host inhabiting your body. But in real life it's lynching, ending up in the prison system, false charges, getting black balled from professions. The boogey man in this case is actually a real concept. So it's uneasy seeing that sheen and spook taken off and almost irrational. Like who is that for?
Take this movie and change race to gender, and dig into the existential dread of women and sexual assault... and then finish that movie with light heartedness... and it flops. Because you can't take real actual boogeyman and downplay it.
------ “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus