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Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the movie is its treatment of interracial relationships. Candyman was killed because he violated the taboos of a racist society. But even in 1992 he has problems wooing Helen. In the final moments of the movie, Candyman offers Helen the prospect of immortal partnership with him and a baby he kidnapped from the projects...
...this interracial family (from hell) is not to be. Helen kills Candyman and takes over for him as number one hook-wielding psychopath. The spirit of Candyman lives on, but in a lily white--albeit burnt--body. Racial integration is possible on a very limited scale. Whites can integrate Black culture but cannot mingle with Blacks...
...create moments of pee-in-your-pants terror. From the ominous overhead shots of Chicago's freeways to the imposing grayness of the University of Illinois, the dark backdrop intensifies the terror. And terror abounds, most notably during Helen's psychiatric exam and her memorable first kiss with Candyman (his mouth is filled with bees). The soundtrack by Philip Glass is appropriately haunting...
...early American drama and frontier fiction, a mythical American spirit embodied by an Indian hero lives on through white people even though the hero dies. "American" culture is transferred to Europeans without the threat of intermarriage. In a retelling of this story--a Black replaces the Indian figure--Candyman accepts its own problematic version of Black culture as American, but this American spirit survives only in a middle-class white body...
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