Glenn Weldon

So, you know, in a film that's kind of a criticism of our current fascist state and maybe puritanicalism, it is actually puritanical and a little bit fascist in what it wants us to think about this.

Deep ironies, I think.

It's ultimate for me, failure.

There are great things about it.

I love the kids.

I love, you know, a lot of stuff, but...

Ultimately, I think they're all at the service of a misguided production.

Interesting.

I am coming at this from a different place than y'all.

And I think I feel about the final product a little bit differently because I hated this book, man.

Now, how much of that is tied up with the fact that, you know, it was required reading and that we all in ninth grade got frog marched through it collectively and

Through the very narrow lens of its allegory, right?

Because pedagogically, this book gets presented to kids as like baby's first symbolism, right?

What do piggy's glasses represent?

What does the conch symbolize, right?

500 words.

You know, something happened to me at ninth grade.

Between that and Animal Farm and Narnia, I grew to hate any book that was presented to me as a puzzle to decode.

And that's not the book's fault.

I want to make that clear.