I'm not sure I have the gumption to say much about Edward Scissorhands. It's well done as fable. All hyperbole and all artist as misfit.
Interestingly there is only one truly mean character (and this played by "the geek" anthony michael hall). He meets an hyperbolic end.
The rest of humanity is simply inane and stupid but for our "mother" figure and our muse.
The Father (inventor/"mad" scientist) begets the artist but does not finish his invention (ah geppeto) before dying; the avon lady (ah the mask of "normalcy) mothers him with acceptance and security; the daughter (romantic muse) will release his gift.
And almost he becomes "one of us"...but we misunderstand him and he retreats back into his art and his solitary existence.
Funny and sweet and while being "grotesque" in it's characterizations--"modern life" in suburbia is boring and enlivened yet degraded by commerce and sex...shocking realizations, right?
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I liked the gothic trappings and always do enjoy a Frankenstein reference (and a giant orange or lime green tent dress )
Like me, Mary Shelley would approve of the casting of Johnny
i went with Pinocchio here rather than Frank N. Stein due to my feeling that 1) the inventor was kind (cookies and miss manners!) and 2) the "monster" was really just a little boy.
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