"I'll get you my little pretty, and your dog too."

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2013)

There are only two other Movies from Hollywood's Golden Age that have been as influential, deconstructed, analyzed, reconsidered, penetrating, viewed, and reviewed, noticed, and unforgotten as this one. King Kong (1933) and Citizen Kane (1941).
Everyone who has seen Oz has an opinion and it is usually a strong one. It undeniably unmasks facades and oozes into the deeper parts of the consciousness worthy of the best Psychoanalysis.
On the surface it lures one in with its sentimentality and charms with its catchy and heartfelt tunes. It bombards the senses, like a psychedelic, expanding consciousness through dripping Colors and the most imaginative of imagery.
As the mind opens it is vulnerable to scary images as well as the sublime. Reality becomes a focused blur that is experienced profoundly and deeply. It is Art at its most cunningly persuasive.
If you "pay no attention to the Man behind the curtain", you will find yourself in a land of Milk and Honey, but if you acknowledge reality for what it is and not what is hoped for, it might become a Truth that is as scary as a Flying Monkey.
This Film is a Wonderful way to open the "doors of perception". That is the least and the best that the Movies can offer.