The point, of course, is to turn your children into dutiful buyers at an early age, trapping them into obligations of debt-ridden bauble collecting before they figure out they have a choice. The film shows that Disneyland and other amusement parks essentially trick you into paying them to further enforce the nine-to-five work schedule you despise, and they get away with it by sinking their hooks into your children with their movies, toys, and TV shows. Viewed from a skeptical distance, rather than a willed determination to stuff in as much “fun” as humanly possible over the course of a vacation-as-stay-of-execution, Disneyland immediately asserts itself to the viewer as an ominous alternate dimension primed to suck the little time consumers have away from work right up and away from them.
Escape from tomorrow code#
No, we’re not talking about a brave new world as put forth by Aldous Huxley, but present day Disneyland.ĭirector Randy Moore really only has one joke, but it’s a good one: He paints Disneyland as hell by shooting it virtually and suggestively, not to mention illegally, as it is with only a few flourishes apart from the crisp, eerie black-and-white photography, utilizing the park as a self-incriminating found object in a manner that suggests the hallucinatory use of real locations in films such as Alphaville and Code 46. Repose appears to be unimaginable, as a moment of reflection might allow one of the realm’s inhabitants to arrive at the realization that the happiness theoretically for sale is both an illusion and a cheap ghoulish joke. The realm is loud, garishly lit, and stuffed to its apparent seams with pitiful trinkets that serve as contemptuous reminders of the greed and waste that rule a place that’s revealed to have sprung from the creative loins of a society that favors sensation above any potentially dull forces of calmness or emotional sobriety.
Escape from tomorrow series#
Escape from Tomorrow is set in a fantasy realm presided over by robots and costumed henchmen charged with pushing and prodding people mercilessly through a series of elaborate cogs designed to keep everyone moving their bodies and spending their money.
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