. . . that title reference character Ralph Phillips is generally confined to his family's DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM. Has he been bitten by a Zika Mosquito, and come down with Microencephaly? No. Has Lon Chaney tried to cast him as Lon Chaney III by bathing his face in acid? No. Was Mrs. Phillips knocked up by a Pachyderm, turning Ralphie into a budding ELEPHANT MAN? No again. Young Ralph is doomed to inhabit a metal cell in a turret because he cannot stop thinking like a Looney Tuner, envisioning the 21st Century Calamities, Cataclysms, Catastrophes and General Apocalypti in store for America. First, BOYHOOD DAZE features an ISIS Guerilla Gang trying to serve up American Tourists as Cannibalistic Hors D'Oeuvres. Then our Chinese nemesis attacks the U.S. with aircraft so advanced that they must be depicted as UFOs for 1950s theater audiences. Finally, an adult Ralph is thrown into a Maximum Security Federal Pen (after he's implausibly outgrown his DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM). Wouldn't you want to chop down a few of the Trojan Horse-like Pearl Harbor cherry trees if all of this happened to YOU?
Review of Boyhood Daze
Boyhood Daze
(1957)
The opening of BOYHOOD DAZE makes it clear . . .
29 September 2016
Warning: Spoilers