A Beautiful Fairy Tale

Rating: 10/10 (26 April 2020)

One of the most beautiful movies ever made. Ostensibly a Cold War era science fiction monster movie set in 1960s Baltimore, it is, in actuality, an allegorical fairy tale aimed at exposing the puritanical, conservative Roy at the heart of America. The white Judeo-Christian alpha male, the hero of most movies, is the villain of the piece, intolerant of difference, domineering towards women, belittling of subordinates. The heroes are the woman with a disability, the woman of colour, the gay man, the foreigner and the (rather extreme example of the) outsider. The comparison between toxic masculinity and female sexuality is also presently beautifully.
As always on IMDb, the one and two star reviews can be ignored; the ignorant bigots of the anti-PC brigade can always be relied upon to lash out at anything that offends their blinkered views.