Agent Orange Cooper » Tue Dec 31, 2019 9:02 pm wrote:Guess I'll share this here.
When I saw the Shining sequel Doctor Sleep at the theater back in November, I came out of it feeling that not only was it just a terrible movie, it was a) actively obfuscating the whistleblowing symbology of Kubrick's film and b) was a stealthily pro-pedo film, in which not only are adult/child relations normalized in a subliminally creepy way, but an actual pedophile (hebephile, whatever) is made to be the victim to an 'evil' Lolita-esque teen girl who wishes to punish him for his crimes. She goes on to be one of the main villains of the film — "fucking men" she says, before being shot in the head by one our heroes.
The film also features an excruciatingly protracted scene in which a young boy is sadistically tortured and murdered, and his life essence imbibed.
ANYWAY, the sharp end of this being that until days after seeing the film and having all these feelings, I had no knowledge of director Mike Flanagan's Instagram account, which I discovered has an interesting theme to it, to say the least:
I'm sure it's just coincidence.
Looks like Flanagan decided it was best to delete this account a few months after I posted this. Glad I've got screenshots archived here.
https://twitter.com/flanaganfilm/status ... 3252034560
