It was around November on MSN, I recall distinctly that the night before Jen and I watched Bowie's Man that Fell To Earth, as recommend by you, due to your affinity for Bowie. ;) When Jen noticed a scene from the film in which Bowie is looking into the mirror resembled Man that you fear and Running To The Edge, so I went and took a screenshot for her to post on the visual parallels thread, and while I was taking screenshots I noticed the Monkey Mask and it was brought up as the three of us discussed the man that fell to earth, when I showed you this then you compared it to the crucifix that hangs on the wall, and Jen said it reminded her of the Disposable teens video....
Anyways, it's meant to be shared I have more to add :)
THE RABBIT'S JUST A MONKEY IN DISGUISE...
What I find most interesting, is that the monkey mask is hanging right beside the door, as if he has to put it on to blend in with the crowd, or has discarded the mask to set himself apart from the crowd, as an individual. Adam, the animal who will not be himself, The monkey with the misspelled name... The man who wishes to be something more than just another face in the crowd, The idiot who will not be himself
"a wanna-be somebody."
To further the parallels that NK and S.D. have already composed in regards to the monkey as a personification of Christ, Christ was literally an "ape of god," a mere mortal, or "ape" who put into motion "the will of the gods" by his own hands. Which separated him from the crowd and thus place a halo, or rather a "target" on his head by the ruling empire who, would much rather have a group of people who conformed and accepted the established rule. Christ entered Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, thus crowning himself the messiah, as this act had been prophecised in the Old Testament, but never put forth into motion until Christ made this a self-fulfilled prophecy of sorts, much like Manson states in regards to bringing about the apocalypse as the anti-christ superstar. When Christ entered the Holy Temple and caused the upheaval and turmoil within, by turning over the money changers table he placed the target on his head, marking himself as the martyr and discarded "the mask" of obscurity, Which as result led to his crucifixion. But it was he, and he alone that nailed himself into place.
Christ, who was just as rebellious as Manson was against conformity and established rule,
Basically came from the same roots as Manson or of Adam Kadmon in the context of the storyline.
In all actuality Christ was nothing more than a mere human being, who propelled himself to stardom as the Messiah with the intentions of overthrowing the oppression of the roman empire and the church, Jerusalem was Christ's Holy Wood, and much like Adam, Christ was born as a "nobody" in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, presumably sensitive to the weak and downtrodden as that was the community he had grown up in his entire life. Certainly Adam dreamed of a world that was so white and perfect, and had every intention of bringing that beauty back with him to share with the "nobodies." Through his intelligence and spirit, Adam becomes a "star" a true "working class hero." And quickly rises to fame Though when he gets to the top, much like Lucifer's temptation of Christ atop the hill, of Holy Wood in which Lucifer offered Christ the opportunity to rule the working class, or the "nobodies" who lived in the very same Valley in which Adam had been born and grown up in, Adam (or Christ) refuses to do the "crooked little dance" and realizes that he had lost his identity and connection to the very same people who he had hoped to bring with him, and thus sets out to destroy what he had become, the very same thing he grew up wishing to be.
"I hate what I've become to escape what I hated being"
The Fall Of Adam
When Adam arrives back to his trailer in the Valley of Death, After his prescription has expired and his fifteen minutes of fame is up, he hangs his monkey mask on the wall, crucifying what he was and what he had become and prepares himself, for the death parade. The majority of the film for the Man that You Fear consists of Manson being anointed and "dressed up as a dying god." The residents of the Valley of Death, now feel that he is no longer one of them, and thus blindly condemn him to his death. The boy that they loved had now became the monster they fear. He whites out his name and crawls back into the shadow, as the "ugly light" of the world from atop of space has damaged him beyond repair, and from the cross he screams out:
HERE IS MY REAL HEAD, I WEAR THIS FUCKING MASK
BECAUSE YOU CANNOT HANDLE THE REAL ME.
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