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Ghosts in the Shadow of the Mouse

You can't go home again, but you can never really leave it.

After we get through the ticket check and walk past the flower collage of Mickey Mouse, we arrive at “Mainstreet U.S.A,” which resembles a small European town square, a literal Potemkin village of shops that look like places people might actually live. In one particularly horrifying scene, the film depicts the final fate of the boys who stayed too long in Pleasure Island, who are fully transformed into animals, stripped of their clothes by the coachman and his demonic henchman, and crated up to work in the Salt mines. Much less discussed was the total corruption of the Californian political class and its subsequently insane policies that left the broader questions of water management, crime, and vagrancy unaddressed while nevertheless draining billions from the budget to pay for flashy progressive boondoggles.

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