. . . of its time. THE MAGICIAN features rampant abuse of the differently-abled, as well as generous helpings of misogyny and a Luddite-like know-nothing anti-Science Agenda. The final 15 minutes of THE MAGICIAN is marred by the demeaning of a dwarf. Certain of these scenes resemble the Young Pachyderm Parties on Today's college campuses, in which the "Dwarf Toss" is a major pastime. Stuffing Little People into cramped pieces of furniture may seem "cute" to some twisted minds in these "anything goes" days of immorality with the Red Commie KGB egging on Americans to behave badly, but any self-respecting film studio should have known better than to foment such outrageous attitudes in the more civilized 1920s. The paternalism with which "Margaret's" guardian second-guesses her choice of a mate also sounds like something out of our current GIRL ERASED era. And the glee with which this authoritarian bozo closes out THE MAGICIAN by burning doomed "Oliver's" scientific papers, vandalizing his biological apparatus, and blowing up his entire laboratory definitely parallels this week's trashing of the 1,600-page Global Warming Disaster Alert.
Review of The Magician
