Blades

Pic via Watchmojo

Was Edward Scissorhands a passive, satirical stab at a healthy, suburban America in its peak?

I was watching it today, after not it seeing for many years, and I’m seeing things, meanings, that I couldn’t have appreciated when I saw it for the first time—at the mere age of nine.

The stereo-type neighbourhood characters; the uniformity of people and painted houses; everybody came and left at the same time. The film makes families look like batteries energising American capitalism and consumerism.

I haven’t thought all of this through extensively. Who knows what Burton was trying communicate via his insular neighbourhood, but watch it and try to spot the elements that got me thinking.