Monday, October 13, 2008
Worldview in Wizard of Oz
Ahh, the classic movie The Wizard of Oz. I think The Wizard of Oz is mostly postmodern. I see a distortion of actual reality when Dorthy is in Oz. Come on, munchkins? Giant flowers? Witches? Talking apple trees? Magic shoes? Flying monkeys? Random singing? The whole freakin' story is a dream sequence. They make up their own reality for the purpose of the story and it essentially turns out to be a pointless adventure. In the real world there was no progress because she was in a head trauma coma. This is a postmodern ideal. Also the wizard himself is just a man who was falsely elevated to a 'god' like status. This agrees mostly with the postmodern view that God does not exist because like Friedrick Nietzsche said "God is dead". There are other worldviews woven into the story I think but it is mostly a postmodern work.
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