Edward Scissorhands: Society's Much Needed Change.

I just finished watching Tim Burton's "Edward Scissorhands" and it is by far one of the best movies I have ever seen. Truth be told, I hardly watch films and rely on friends to guide me when it comes to film choosing. This film beautifully and colorfully portrays the feelings of being Othered in a society that is so perfectly constructed and so stainlessly white that a single disturbance causes the entire neighborhood to fall into crumbles. It conveys humanity's fear in CHANGE (I have taken into consideration that a lot of films have monsters just to scare the souls out of people but monsters such as the creature in "Frankenstein" perfectly exemplifies this change that I'm talking about). Back in the 1950s and the 1960s, the biggest trend was conformity. This was in style back then:

So in this picture, we have the husbands/fathers/breadwinners in their cars driving off to work. In the different colored yet similarly structured homes, we have the wives eagerly waiting for the latest gossip because there's nothing else to do at home but flirt with plummers and sing Christian hymns. The children are at school learning about things that they're "supposed" to know about their reality and dogs are doing what dogs do best on the lawn. Perfect neighborhood, right?
Then in comes the CHANGE or the "shit disturber":

His Being was made with good intentions (born with a "cookie heart") and his creativity is inspiring. But why are people still afraid of Eddie?


I find it funny how the encounter with the Other is portrayed as sexually arousing in this film. I'm talking about the scene when the cougar had her first hair cut by him. There's no doubt that she was truly enjoying herself. However, their encounters went sour when Edward (the Other) appeared to be more in control (ie. when he ran away from her after she took off her clothes in the back of the salon). It was then that the he was seen as a violent threat to the society's 'purity'.

So, I guess what I'm trying to say is this: imagine if we allowed a bunch 'Scissorhands' to live in our neighborhoods. We'd have incredibly good looking lawns and not only that, we'd be sporting wicked hairdos and our dogs wouldn't be so boring to look at.