![]() Furter is shot to death echoes out beyond the gravity of his recent escape attempts from his creator. Only one person finds love, and it comes too late-Rocky Horror. Eddie lies dead in a freezer, and Columbia is left to her own tears. Furter, and Janet further with Rocky Horror. Who has love at the end of the movie? Brad and Janet have cheated on each other-both with Dr. Brad’s economic viewpoint and reluctance testifies to the groundlessness of love-it’s a value which has no value but what we give it, and the rest of the movie plays this groundlessness out. By the end of his proposal, we already see the seeds of doubt. Brad begins his proposal by pointing out that Ralph, the lucky fellow who just got married, will be up for promotion within a year-a clear connection between getting married and getting promoted, as we all know that married men (cheaters and not so much) advance in their careers faster than do single men. They’ve just attended the traditional wedding of friends, and Brad beats around the bush (so to speak) to ask Janet to marry him. Like Rocky Horror, our values-whatever they might be-are monsters of our own creation. Nihilism names a philosophical position that values have no ultimate foundation. The Time-Warp dance prepares us for the reception of meaning from the silver-screen, like communicants kneeling at marble altars.Īll of which points to a nihilism. Audience recitation of counter-point dialogue (“Say something in French,” “Ask Ken and Barbie”) serve as prayers to the gods of theater and farce, or at least to Dionysius. On top of which, of course, it’s cult status challenges the rituals of traditional religions. It shags, almost literally, gender identification, hetero- and homo-sexual stereotypes, and trans-sexualism. Furter with his objectification-come-to-life, Rocky Horror. RHPS shoots holes in the traditional concept of love, not only through the pre-marriage cheating of Janet and Brad, but also through the obsession of Dr. Second, it’s a social critique, but a critique that is tongue-in-cheek and not obvious. ![]() Why is RHPS so nebulous? First, it’s a mish-mash of genres-science fiction, romance, horror, musical it stretches and pokes at the mind that tries to understand the riotous tell. (For some reason, my wife, whose name is Janet, gets upset every time we watch this movie in a theater.) After having a rough start, RHPS quickly developed cult status, and many of us, I am sure, have attended at least one midnight showing, recited lines and repeated, not very nice things about Janet. RHPS will celebrate its 40 th birthday next year. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is almost-almost-indescribable, unclassifiable. The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Philosophy Let’s do the time warp again- By Jeffery L.
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