Mummers Parody?

This 'light-hearted Orwellian' film is not unlike Peter Weir's The Truman Show and Joe Dante's The 'Burbs.

An average American teenage boy and girl are transported 'inside' an idyllic world (a black-and-white 'sitcom' community) where everything is 'boring' from a derring-do perspective and decide to 'introduce' the 'people' of the world to the 'excitement' of free will, but the changes do not come without self-discovery and shock.

The visual craftiness of this under-rated film is rather engaging, and while it is at times only clever, it encourages liberal thinking about 'community values creativity.'

This film 'feels' almost like a 'comic parody' of the 'humanist metaphysics aesthetics' of the 'culturally-monolithic' Mummers Parade (an annual presentation/celebration of the 'Americana status quo')!


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DAVID: What's wrong with humming about risk?

JENNIFER: I don't think these people think much about adventure!

DAVID: Haven't they considered that the Mummers Parade is simply masquerade?

JENNIFER: Even their kids sing to their tunes!

DAVID: We could choose between heaven and hell.

JENNIFER: We should consider ourselves philosophers.

DAVID: What's the difference between terrorism and witchcraft?

JENNIFER: The self-portrait.

DAVID: I prefer John Candy films to Jack Nicolson films.

JENNIFER: You're obsessed with the Mummers Parade!

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Mummers Parade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Parade