{"id":39606,"date":"2020-08-03T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-quarantine-stream-raising-arizona-is-a-delightfully-weird-metaphor-for-parenting\/"},"modified":"2020-08-03T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:00:00","slug":"the-quarantine-stream-raising-arizona-is-a-delightfully-weird-metaphor-for-parenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-quarantine-stream-raising-arizona-is-a-delightfully-weird-metaphor-for-parenting\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Quarantine Stream: \u2018Raising Arizona\u2019 is a Delightfully Weird Metaphor for Parenting"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The Quarantine Stream: \u2018Raising Arizona\u2019 is a Delightfully Weird Metaphor for Parenting<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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(Welcome to\u00a0The Quarantine Stream<\/strong>, a new series<\/a> where the \/Film team shares what they\u2019ve been watching while social<\/a> distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Movie: <\/strong>Raising Arizona<\/i><\/p>\n

Where You Can Stream It:<\/strong>\u00a0HBO Max<\/p>\n

The Pitch:\u00a0<\/strong>A low-level criminal (Nicolas Cage<\/strong>) marries a decorated police officer (Holly Hunter<\/strong>), but after learning that they can\u2019t have children the old-fashioned way, the pair decides to kidnap the infant son of a local furniture salesman and raise him as their own.<\/p>\n

Why It\u2019s Essential Viewing: <\/strong>Cage and Hunter are both great, playing this mismatched pair of goobers who are somehow perfect for each other. But for me, the primary draw of this movie is its completely unique tone, courtesy of writer\/directors Joel<\/strong> and Ethan Coen<\/strong>. This was only their second feature film, but it\u2019s wildly confident in its heightened language, its camera movement, and its overt ridiculousness. The movie was designed specifically to take them to the opposite end of the filmmaking spectrum from their debut movie, Blood Simple<\/em>, and this exuberant, goofy film proved from their earliest days that they\u2019re the type of directors who can seamlessly jump from one genre to another.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a parent, and neither were the Coens when they made this film in 1987. But despite not having that personal history of raising children themselves, the directors managed to make a movie that serves as a seemingly apt and definitely weird metaphor for the act of parenting itself. Watching Cage\u2019s H.I. \u201cHi\u201d McDunnough go on an epic foot chase, with a pack of dogs nipping at his heels and police officers firing shotguns at him, all while he\u2019s just trying to secure some diapers for his (illegally) adopted son seems like a great illustration of what it must feel like to be a parent in this world, fighting off obstacles left and right and getting into seemingly life and death situations just to secure the most basic needs for your family.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, and don\u2019t forget about Leonard Smalls, the deranged bounty hunter who may have been literally conjured up from hell in one of Hi\u2019s dreams and dropped into their reality. I\u2019ve heard Jeff Cannata on the \/Filmcast joke about how his very young children seemed unwittingly hellbent on killing themselves, and the leather-clad, shotgun-toting, grenade-strapp<\/a>ed Leonard Smalls seems like a representation of Death itself in this film, getting into a hand-to-hand brawl with Hi as the soul of this baby floats in the balance. And like so many wily cartoon heroes, it\u2019s incredibly satisfying here to watch Hi use his head to come up with a creative way to send Death packing\u2026at least for a little while.<\/p>\n

Shamefully, I haven\u2019t spent nearly enough time talking about Holly Hunter, and I apologize to her for that, but her performance, the parenting metaphors, Barry Sonnenfeld\u2019s propulsive cinematography, Frances McDormand and John Goodman popping up in supporting roles, and the film\u2019s breakneck pacing \u2013 in and out in an hour and a half \u2013 make this an exceedingly easy recommendation.<\/p>\n

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