English Post 12: "Midnight in Paris" an innocent hollywood rom-com, or a sadistic piece of anti-semitic propoganda?

At first glance the popular chick flick "Midnight in Paris" starring Owen Wilson seems like one of your classic time-travel/romance/comedies that hollywood has been pumping out faster than a diabetic hypoglycemic cow produces milk, but, upon further scrutiny, there is a dark ideology hidden beneath the clever jests and pretty faces that are prevalent throughout the film.

A leaked picture of Wilson at a halloween party in 2005 dressed as Adolf Hitler

But first let me give a short synopsis of the film:
An aspiring writer, Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), travels to Paris with his fiance. Gil is struggling with his writing and thinks he would do better in the 1920's. One night he is walking the streets of Paris and finds out that he can time travel back to the20's and talk with his favorite literary heroes. He begins traveling back in time every single night to hang out with Hemingway and Fitzgerald and bae, yet what he never even thinks about doing is warning 1920's Europe about the impending world war and holocaust, and even worse, 9/11.

It's hard to believe that Gil wouldn't have thought about warning the world about the holocaust. I mean, how many times a day are you asked the question "Who would you kill if you could go back in time and kill one person?" (10.) and how often is your answer "Hitler" (every time.). It's more likely that Gil thought about stopping the holocaust/killing Hitler, and made a conscious decision not to. And why would Gil not kill Hitler? The logical conclusion is that Gil was a neo-Nazi himself.

So, next time your innocent son or daughter asks if they can watch "Midnight in Paris" for movie night, you'll know what to say. Because nothing destroys the moral backbone of our nation's children like subliminal Nazi anti-american ideologies that fill our children's heads with depraved communist fantasies.

DP