Cultural Rot:
Highlander
Macleod scoops up a kid in Germany and after killing a Nazi offer takes the little girl with him. Later it is strongly hinted at that they are romantically involved as they have a tender moment together (she is his secretary and adult at this point but still WTF?). “There can only be one” indeed!
Weird Science
Lisa (the woman – a beautiful, foreign ‘super’ model that the boys “create” and “control”) ask “how old are you” to one of the young men as they are making out, to which he replied “15 but almost 16.” It is inferred that they have sex. Slipped into the psyche and normalized. Stevie Nicks around same time frame will release a song titled “On the Edge of Seventeen” and it is about the same subject. She refers to herself as a “white witch.” Doubtful that means she is a good witch but simply she is white and she is a witch. How is it that John Hughes made movie after movie with most being big hits and becoming cultural cap stones. Hughes was connected to national lampoon. National Lampoon came out of Haavard. This was pre-programed cultural rot that everyone consumed in mass quantities.
Interconnected threads. The whole idea of any of it being ‘organic’ is laughable. A person is picked to be the face and name then whatever bilge that is to be severed up ‘to the unwashed masses’ (i.e., deplorables).
Watch the bonus section of Weird Science where they are attempting to explain various elements including John Hughes. These people are not very bright and given very surface level explanations not deep reflections. Useful idiots or pawns or a combination of both.
Judd Apetow picks up on this (spreading the cultural rot and turning the young against the old and promoting degeneracy) and continues in into the next generation. His muse is the literal golden boy.
Kevin Spacey in American Beauty making it hip or cool or ok to lust after a teen age girl and promote drug use as he gets high and buys drugs from the neighbor’s high school age son. The boy’s father is retired military and made out to be a closeted homosexual and this is why he murders Kevin Spacey in the end. Kevin Spacy is good at playing a psychopath because it turns out that he is on. And he is still out doing what he does apparently with impunity and no fear.
Not possible to get lost in the fantasy land they create once the curtain is pulled by. Then all that is left is a critical eye.