Evil Dead (2013), The Failure Of (Republican and Democractic) Family Values, and Joseph Stalin
The best place to take your social problems is a cabin in the woods used for ritual sacrifice. So, Mia's friends and brother cart her out to said cabin in order to play a game of 'cold turkey' in order to get Mia to kick her habit. Early on we find out that Mia's friends are conspiring to keep at the Cabin even if she wants to go home. David is hesitant, yet eventually gives in when Mia makes a run for it. Enter the Evil Deads. Right when Mia has reached rock bottom she is tangled attacked by a treat and 'impregnated' with a squirmy root-worm that transforms here into an Evil Dead.
Mia is at once the monster of her social network plaguing upon their emotional and fiscal resources, and a victim of witnessing her mother’s crazy death, and the addiction it inspired to sooth it. Republican's like to frame everything in terms of choice as if everyone was choosing from the same pool of opportunities. The homeless, poor, violent, and drug addicted are the way they are because they make a set of choices that directly correlate to the situation they find themselves in. The problem with this of course is that it blames the victim, ignores social responsibility, makes republicans sound innocent, and blatantly disregards structural racism, sexism and classism.
What is Mia's choice? The proper Stalin's purge. In order to cleanse here self from the relationships that oppress her she eradicates them, and in the process is born again. Are the relationships with her friends really that rotten? Yes. Consider that the majority of scenes in which they have dialog are mostly centered on problematizing Mia as something to be fixed, and instead of seeking proper medical services that are trained in detox they narcissistically take it upon themselves to cure Mia. Of what use are friends like these? Mia's purging of her social relationships and the chainsawing-to-the-face of the only part of her that her friends could relate to liberated her from her addiction and emancipated her from those who sought to dehumanize her in a vulnerable point in her life. As Stalin said:
“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.” Joseph Stalin (Quotesdaddy.com,. 'Famous Quotes By Joseph Stalin | Quotes Daddy'. N. p., 1878. Web. 17 May. 2014.)
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
(BrainyQuote,. 'Joseph Stalin Quotes At Brainyquote'. N. p., 1879. Web. 17 May. 2014.
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