What the heck is Burton's message???

Rating: 1/10 (7 May 2006)

I really looked forward to seeing the Corpse Bride, because of the nice trailer. I really did. I realized now after remembering the very kitsch and tasteless Edward Scissorhands and the cheesy and even more tasteless Big Fish, that Burton definitely is dreadfully mainstream. And his claiming that he sleeps at the Ritz in Paris before every French premiere of his films because it brings him luck (sic) did not help me in liking this man who thinks he is delightfully wacky and outside the mainstream. Anyway.
So I went to see the Corpse Bride. And I got out of the cinema really angry to have paid, wasted, 8 dollars for this stupid film. I'll tell you what shocked me (because some stuff really shocked me, without even having to think about it). Roughly, the way women are viewed. Victoria, Victor's fiancée, is a nice girl, shy and kind, but OK, to the eyes of our society,(not mine)let's face it, she is completely tasteless and a bit stupid. That's one thing. Then comes Emily (is that her name?), the Corpse Bride. Roughly, a "hot chick" (isn't that what Burton wanted us to think?), the West Coast version of the hot chick, super big pink lips, small very small nose that makes us think she might have had surgery (maybe with the same surgeon that Mickael Jackson), a really thin and sexy (anorexic) body, but surprisingly, amazing big boobs!!!Well, the cliché of the "perfect" girl, at least perfect to the eyes of the basic redneck man. The film is about the struggle between the two women, one small and "ugly", the other one tall and "hot" (I'm using brackets because to me it's all so biased, this vision of what is beautiful and what is not). Another thing that shocked me: this stupid Victor, that Burton tries to introduced as shy and clumsy, innocent and sexless, who sees that two women are fighting for him, and he does not take any clear position for none of them. He likes Emily (we don't know if he has erections when he sees her, Burton's world wanting itself to be childlike -yeah, big boobs and two women for one man, that's really childlike!!), but tells her that he is to be married; and he likes Victoria (probably no erection, but who cares), but still cannot make a decision. Here it is: two women on their knees for one men...What the hell is that subliminal message??? At some point, I remember Emily the slutty making some irritated comments about Victoria, I think she even imitates Vicoria's (small and not sexual) lips, saying that oh, she is so nice and polite and etc.
In the end the hot girl sacrifices herself for the ugly little girl (Glory to the fake boob hot Californian girls -ok, this one is not blonde, (because Mr Burton thinks he is doing some Gothic connoted movies, so she has to have black hair...-) .....Where is the moral in this???
I sense that many people did not have the same feeling about the (subliminal) message of Burton...It's sad, because he thinks that he can make his audience swallow anything, even the bad things of today's society. Don't women have enough problems with the image they give? Do they need some so-called "alternate" movie maker to push the whole complex even deeper??Always have to be thinner, with more and more tendency to resort to plastic surgery to try to be perfect, and Burton glorifies this terrible vision of women (because Emily, with her "death" is crystallized in her perfect appearance, will never grow old, so she is the real heroin in the movie) I found all that disgusting, full of unwholesome messages... Yes, that's the word, completely unwholesome. Burton is nothing but an mainstream movie maker, in spite of what he seems to think. He seems to think that whatever he releases, people will follow him (in that he is smart, because it is actually what happens...), but I find him more and more ridiculous, and even more, pompous. His imagery is really shocking and out of place in a society that has already its flaws about the men-women inequalities. Does he want every girl to be anorexic and doing plastic surgery? You really are see-through, Mr Burton, and not everyone falls for that.