Lego my Ego
Is it just me, or does Michael Jackson’s Thriller seem to have, in retrospect, a hidden meaning? Especially if you conceive, as I do, of the roots of his insanity being in an absolute terror of adult sexuality. Jackson grew up seeing his father and older brothers be abusive (mostly emotionally but sometimes physically) to the women in their lives, including his own mother. So the video’s story of a man who turns into a monster the minute a woman (played by a former Playboy Playmate, no less) tells him she loves him might seem to say more about the man he sees in the mirror than we might first have expected. Of course, just what he sees in the mirror is another thing–I also believe the drive behind his disasterous addiction to plastic surgery was a desire to erase his father’s features from his own face.
But anyway, enough about all that. What brought this on was a little cartoon my friend Corey sent me. You say you’ve wondered what the Thriller video would look like completely re-enacted with Legos?
Well, wonder no more.
