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In conclusion: zombies.
Oct. 26th, 2010 03:05 pmAt a Halloween party this weekend, a friend told me about her weirdo neighbors' lawn decorations. Apparently there are five blood-spattered wedding dresses hung up on stakes and arranged in what sounds like an X, and then skeleton/zombie/corpse things coming out of the ground under them.
She doesn't like them (the decorations) (also the neighbors) because she thinks they're tacky and bizarre. But I am bothered for a different reason: what, exactly, is the narrative supposed to be here? If it were one wedding dress and zombie thing, that would be okay, because the zombie bride is a common trope playing on the juxtapositions of happy (weddings)/sad (death) and purity (brides)/loss of innocence (being gruesomely murdered). It would also make sense if it were one wedding dress and then, like, two bridesmaid dresses and three tuxes, because the story could be either 1) an axe murderer shows up at a wedding and slaughters the wedding party (and then they all have their fancy clothes as grave markers, I guess); or 2) in a community of sentient zombies, two such zombies have fallen in love and are getting married, and their attendants are also zombies (and it's very important in zombie culture that their dresses and tuxes have blood on them). But, no. It's five wedding dresses.
I mean. I can't stop thinking about this. It's obviously very serious business. So far, all I've come up with is that maybe it's a lesbian group wedding. Between zombies. Zombie culture is very progressive, you see.
She doesn't like them (the decorations) (also the neighbors) because she thinks they're tacky and bizarre. But I am bothered for a different reason: what, exactly, is the narrative supposed to be here? If it were one wedding dress and zombie thing, that would be okay, because the zombie bride is a common trope playing on the juxtapositions of happy (weddings)/sad (death) and purity (brides)/loss of innocence (being gruesomely murdered). It would also make sense if it were one wedding dress and then, like, two bridesmaid dresses and three tuxes, because the story could be either 1) an axe murderer shows up at a wedding and slaughters the wedding party (and then they all have their fancy clothes as grave markers, I guess); or 2) in a community of sentient zombies, two such zombies have fallen in love and are getting married, and their attendants are also zombies (and it's very important in zombie culture that their dresses and tuxes have blood on them). But, no. It's five wedding dresses.
I mean. I can't stop thinking about this. It's obviously very serious business. So far, all I've come up with is that maybe it's a lesbian group wedding. Between zombies. Zombie culture is very progressive, you see.
