By Ali Ikram
If you have just watched 2 Fast 2 Furious and thought ‘some of that went over my head’, here is an explanation of the deeper meanings behind the shallow movie.
Watching the video will mean many of you have just watched it from beginning to end.
You might be surprised to hear that when 2 Fast 2 Furious was released the critics were not too kind.
What the haters missed was the underlying subtext of a film. In fact this film is actually a movie about the plight of fatherlessness in modern society. Do not believe me?
Cultural criticism site partialobjects.com offers this Freudian analysis.
"These films are about conflicts with fathers. It was the role of the father to enforce the child's subordination of his desires, pleasures, happiness to the rules and structures of reality (the super ego).
“But what of our post-modern society, in which father is very often unknown, or simply absent? Then there is no father with whom to have an oedipal conflict, and no resulting internalisation of the superego. And therefore no maturation."
So when lesser minds see this they think jackasses skylarking in cars. Those of us who know better see unresolved oedipal complexes on wheels looking for an authority figure to curb their base urges.
I know what you are saying; ‘Tell me something I don't know, Ikram’.
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