"If our Lord wasn't testing us, how would you account for the proliferation, these days, of this obscene rock and roll music, with its gospel of easy sexuality and relaxed morality?"
Reverend Shaw Moore
Footloose 1984
"Yeah.. Yeah".. as Usher would say; and the crowd breaks down in a choreographed display where fears are left outside with their egos, and music drives the rhythm.
Footloose is that movie that turned a dance banishment in a small town of people, to a rebellion surrounded by a bit of spirit. The rebellious act of teenagers stage a war on the town's hesitation to let the music move them, define them. It may have defined boundaries for some; but, did they define dance as pop culture? It was actually a humorous take on rebellion if you ask me; yet, it was entertaining to say the least. I think we forget sometimes that ideas are past times. When we seek to invent something brilliant, hoping to gain a reaction; we sometimes gain the wrong publicity, and we kinda are the only one left dancing on the dance floor.
Reverend Shaw Moore portrayed the dance ban leader in this movie; he has a prominent role; to speak the truth. Is there such a thing as relaxed morality as he states? Or the gospel of easy sexuality? Phew... we are in for a doozy if you ask me.
I can't seem to find the silver lining here. Teenagers are striving to overturn a revolution of dance in a small town; and the power through proliferation is supposed to keep the town in check? What the hell is proliferation? (I had to look it up because it was driving me nuts. Here I am writing a word I don't even know if I relate to). Proliferation is the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts. A rapid and often excessive spread or increase.
Cells??? Are we talking about the teenagers here? Are teenagers the cells?
Why is it that things have to be petitioned, or protested to excessively spread or increase a message? Why do we, as a society, small group or individual, feel that we must power through the objections in opinion with the power of the masses, in groups? Its easy to see that the revitalization of the spirit of this town was existential. But, was it proliferate?
"Let's hear it for the boy"... another catchy tune that came out of this flick.
Was it the boy with the desire to dance, the catalyst to the empowerment? Was it the town that lacked direction in dance? Was it the Reverend that held back the teens from experience motion? Dance was just the test; the teenagers were the experiment. Have you ever staged a rebellion? A protest? A gathering? Did you succeed or falter?
"Ecclesiastes assures us... that there is a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to laugh... and a time to weep. A time to mourn... and there is a time to dance. And there was a time for this law, but not anymore. See, this is our time to dance. It is our way of celebrating life. It's the way it was in the beginning. It's the way it's always been. It's the way it should be now." - Ren
Get ready to move it today... did you hear? Its time to dance.
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