Scopdom Scop - Fears Of Flood

What we have in FEARS, of course, are all the staples of a typical Scop production: the cripples, street urchins, and other victims of an oppressive capitalistic-authoritarian society. We have the various surgical instruments, children in cowboy suits, incredibly bad interpretive dancing and hand-washing. We have your basic Eisenhower worship and nostalgia for a time when you could laugh at those with considerably less fortune than yourself...
Throughout the film, we are witness to glimpses of an overseer, a supreme controller in the figure of Officer Barnes. Notice the deity figure wears a uniform and carries a gun. "Officer Barnes", the narrator tells us, "Has never had to use his gun, but always keeps it at the ready." This is much like the President with his finger on the nuclear button, or the guy who raises his hand at the end of a three hour meeting when the speaker asks if there are any questions. It is a volatile, potentially explosive situation. (Compare this to the eyeglasses symbolism, The Great Gatsby)...
Officer Barnes is met at one point by young Gordon, who informs the patrolman that there is an abandoned bike that's been sitting unclaimed for days in the vacant lot. He investigates, and indeed pulls the bike out of the shrubbery in a last ditch attempt to save our innocence. No such luck. (See Wells' Rosebud.) It is obvious that mankind will now fall, and the dizzying finale begins to form.
A final note. Throughout the film we are given a constant warning, a signal if you will, to wake up and take notice. Much like Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer, the blare of emergency vehicle sirens are pervasive. But we did not heed your urgency. We do not rectify the situation. We gloss over the problems of this society as if they don't amount to a hill of beans. We try to buy our way out of feeling, of seeing. Johnny tells his father: "Next year, we'll send a check."

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You have

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Meh. Try harder to be pretentious. This is just lazy.