Friday, June 13, 2008
Every once in awhile you stumble across some essay purporting to expose the sexual themes in some story or other. I remember reading one particularly in-depth examination of the Lord of the Rings and its hidden messages, for instance. The truth is, of course, that people have sex on the brain (naturally), that the human mind is very good at drawing inferences even where none are intended, so such "discoveries" are hardly surprising, rarely very convincing, but often entertaining nonetheless.
Apparently, some Iranians have Joooos on the brain, and don't need to work very hard to uncover their tentacles...even in claymation:
Following are excerpts from a segment of an Iranian documentary series on Hollywood cinema focusing on the film "Chicken Run." The segment aired on the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN), on May 29, 2008:
Narrator: "Movies into which huge amounts of money are poured, in an effort to turn Zionist themes into entertainment, include movies created for children and youth. Animated films produced since the 1990s have joined other film genres in becoming a tool for Zionist propaganda. Sometimes this is achieved using falsified biblical narratives, like in the case of 'Prince of Egypt.' Other times, it is achieved in a very subtle, crafty, and indirect manner, like in 'Chicken Run.'"...
...Iranian film critic Dr. Majid Shah-Hosseini: "Many films from the 1960s and 1970s indirectly convey the notion that the Jews were oppressed. This is conveyed through the themes of distance from the motherland, and the search for one's mother, who symbolizes the motherland. These messages were gradually introduced into animation and children's films."...
...Iranian film critic Sayyid Abu-Alhassan Allawi Tabatabai: "These people never make a film without a premeditated motive...
..."Two emotional themes can be identified in children's films, especially animation. One is the lost mother, and the other is the lost land. There is also the lost dog... These three themes frequently appear in animation produced since the 1970s."
The lost dog! It all makes sense now! An 'aha' moment.
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These 'experts' are the people who really need to be invited to talk at academic institutions like Columbia. If they thought the comment about 'no gays in Iran' was absurd, they'd really understand Iranian culture after hearing these theories.
I hereby sound a voice cry (kol kore) for responsible leaders in the UN to put an end to this hate propoganda.!!!
Ben