Hidden meanings in Film Noir: DANCING AT THE BLUE IGUANA (2000) - The epitome of Love

• The blindness of fools 
  A guy is shocked that a girl (Sandra Oh) he knows at the poetry club is a stripper at the blue iguana. Love truly is blind! In reality, stripping or going nude publicly is one of the major tools for the destruction of love that is widely accepted by all systems worldwide. However, did you know that fools are bonded to not patronize or attend functions where such practices are done? You might think its a large crowd and certainly everyone knows but you'd be surprised at the blindness of fools who are truly in love. These practices relegate lovers and reduce the side of life that's supposed to prosper by the upliftment of those who are truly lovers. 

• The lure of nudity 
  Nudity is a means of mental slavery and includes tools like porn and strippers. While the demonic essence benefit from the money and ego boost of owning these activities, the angelic suffer enslavement through unhealthy yearnings. Many men have wasted away their lives and opportunities in the bathroom with a screen or magazine on their laps. Masturbation is one of the many tools that ensures that fools remain unmotivated and downtrodden in society. The problem is that 'fools' are also a vital aspect of our humanity because every man is created with a unique skill or ability that's supposed to contribute to the building of a better world. Moreover, the members of the system pride themselves by 'not caring' hence it is important that 'fools' who care are blessed and uplifted to withstand the emptiness of a system focused on vanity. 

• Hidden in the smile 
  The movie presents a non-glamorous take on strippers with the emphasis being on their personal struggles with life's challenges. This helps give the viewer another perspective on the promoted glamour of strippers, a perspective that shows women quite unhappy with their situation. This perspective provides a message of unwilling participation, a situation of resignation on the part of the girls who can find no other reasonable option. In reality, a woman's weakness makes her vulnerable, but the strength of their weakness is in the natural role of a woman. Isn't this worth respecting? Aren't women worth being catered for, without being objectified as sexual slaves? 

• The age of rejection 
  Angel (Daryl Hannah) posing as Mrs. Willow makes allusions to the age of rejection when she tells a foster care agent that she was kicked out by a rich suitor at the age of 25. In most sexual enslavement systems, the age of 25 is used to symbolize the release of women from fraternity service. This is an age that symbolizes that their youth and sexuality has been sapped and donated to the promotion of the system. A system which would wait for the next generation of their daughters to also be enslaved, how ridiculous. In reality, so who doesn't get it? That's the question you should ask. Why don't they get it? and what gives you a right or reason to determine and enforce their discrimination? This shows that the demonic and angelic differences which is rooted in the origins of humanity at a time of high spirituality and strangeness is still being unfortunately sustained by a system embedded in most traditions, cultures, and religion. So sad!!! 

• The epitome of love 
  Angel (Daryl Hannah) is so loving that she cannot permit the killing of rats hiding in her air conditioner. This just goes to buttress the fact that the most disgraced, humiliated, or brutalized women in the system are the most loving. This is because the system is bonded to not love, in fact members of the system who remain loving or who think that they've come to fight for love in the system always activate the bond of death. Which is sometimes expressed as gang wars and ultimately fatal outcomes. We cannot let our loving angelic sisters remain abused to such useless system that only take advantage of society. Its quite shocking because we are all children of the same parents, living in the same community, attending the same schools, and hoping to make impact for the betterment of society.
  Jasmine also shocks the audience at her poetry club with a beautiful rendition of her poem. 'Gone in the way of everything' symbolizes the destructive nature or our accepted norms, which only bring down the good things of life. 

• They don't care 
  Money over everything is the rule of the game. Even when Jo (Jennifer Tilly) is abused by a customer and breaks down in a fit of rage, she only ends up kicked out of the club and her things are thrown out. In reality, sometimes when the system is done with the young girls they can be set-up, or purposely provoked to unruly behavior which is then used as an excuse to kick them out. 

• The ruse 
  Angel has a giant billboard poster promoting her nudity and lust to the enchantment of fools, but her personal life is a mess. This is just an acknowledgement of the empty promises of the system which only seeks to exploit the sexuality of angelic women. The bonds which ensure that the 'angelic don't benefit' is portrayed by this scene as the viewer is given a perception of Angel being a cash cow for the system, but still living in poverty. 

• The enslavement 
  Jasmine is not granted a leave when she meets a lover who she intends to accompany on a weekend off. This symbolizes that women enslaved to the system are not permitted to be with fools. Regardless, of her complains of cramps, Jasmine is authoritatively told to shove it up and get on the stage. Jasmine's lover visits the strip club and watches as Jasmine dances seductively on stage, she shed a tear and ripped her bra open. 'Is this the humiliated person, you want to love?' she seems to say with tears in her eyes. At the closing scenes of the movie, while Jasmine regrets with a sorrowful poem in tears and hope for a light, the club owner nonchalantly walks of to get something to eat.
  We cannot have women as slaves in their own land amongst their own family members. Many cultures that discriminate and relegate the girl child are off-springs of the systems of enslavement, this include the preference of male children over females in many traditions and cultures. This is 24 years after the new millennium (year 2000), its high time we acted like we have become civilized.

This is Film Noir!!! Exposing the societal ills and our shortcomings. 

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