@deanduncan63Saw #TheBandConcert. Joy! A milestone in the history of animation, of film comedy, & in fact one of the Medium’s veriest masterpieces …
… Let’s go overboard: This is more than must-see …
… In fact, you’re not a real family until you’ve sat down & submitted yourself to this deeply mischievous, ultimately affirmative delight.
#TheBandConcert. Complete collective virtuosity: picture, colour, sound, music; timing & synchronization, tension & resolution …
… And yet each of these technical parts is warmly inhabited—theme! characterization!—by the best human impulses & values …
… Are you a Hollywood-hater, a by-default media-basher? OK then, how to explain the likes of this, & a near infinity of similar H-wood marvels?
#TheBandConcert seems to me a wonderful Comic counter to Euripides’ The Bacchae. Mickey is Apollonian order, unto excess …
… Donald/Dionysus disconcerts, & deeply. The very elements join in. But this is no tragedy, & Donald/the tempest don’t just stand for disorder …
… They’re not sin either. Rather, this is resourcefulness & bright intelligence, this is fun—youth, innovation, immigrant communities …
… marrying into another family, exposure to a new culture!—& good fellowship. Just the things that the best family cinema gets you.