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"Presence - with a double ass meaning
gifts I bestow, with my riff, and my flow
but you don't hear me though
think fast, catch me, yo
cause I throw what I know with a
Resonance - fo'yo'trouble-ass fiend in
weenin yo-self off the back of the shelf
Jackass crackas, bodystackas
dicktootin niggas, masturbatin' yo trigga
butcha y'all just fake-ass niggas --
-- livin' to get older
with a chip on your shoulder
'cept you think you got a grip,
cuz your hip gotta holster?
Ain't no confessor, so busta, you best just
Shut the fuck up, try to listen and learn --
Check that ego - come off it -
I'm the prophet - the professor
Ima teach you bout The Worm,
who eventually turned to catch wreck
with the neck of a long time oppressor
And he's runnin from the devil, but the
debt is always gaining
And if he's worth being hurt, he's worth
bringin pain in
When the sunshine don't work, the Good Lord
bring the rain in."
After his rap, Dixon says to the police officer, "Now that's the shit that's gonna help you solve the case!" Do you think he was actually speaking to the audience? The rap explains so much...
Everybody has control issues in their lives...
"'Cept you think you gotta grip,
'Cuz your hip gotta holster?"
The plague definitely meant, literally "Let my people go!" to some of the characters...and meant other things to other characters. I think that the frogs must specifically mean different to each person in the film. Some are being punished for mistakes, some are being stopped from mistakes, some are being shown their mistakes, but in the end, it's all about control. Donnie wants Brad to like him for his braces...
"I was so stupid to think I could change his mind, it's not even something I can..." and then he pauses. Wanna bet the next word would be control?
Jim Kurring is insecure about his love life, so he makes up for it in his work life, where he makes himself come off as a powerful man.
"I'm not asking!"
"Don't disrespect a man of authority!"
And then he loses his gun. And he realizes his mistakes. And he gets it back.
"And sometimes Jesus says to me, 'Jim, I've got a surprise for you today.'"
And he had a surprise for him...
Jimmy Gator is part of this game show that Stanley criticizes for being like a circus. Jimmy is the Ringleader, but he is not in control of his family life. He has affairs, molested his daughter, and with just days left to live, he just wants to say he's sorry for his mistakes. And he tries. And just as he's about to shoot himself, God says "No," and the frogs stop him from shooting himself.
"And, no! It's not dangerous to confuse children with angels!"
Stanley and Dixon are angels. Both make the other characters realize something, they both point out the control issues in the movie...
"Dad, you need to be nicer to me."
His father controls Stanley for money.
Linda Partidge is out of control and she so desperately wants to be in control. That is apparent. She also tries to repent...she needs to redeem herself before Earl dies, and she needs to prove that she loves him, she wants to be removed from his will...
And God sends Dixon to her, an angel. And just as she arrive at the hospital, the ambulance crashes? Is she too late to be saved? No, because she is seen alive inside the hospital...
Earl is sorry because he wishes he hadn't let his family spin out of control by abandoning them. He wants to see his son again. In the end, look at Tom Cruise. you can almost hear the words "I love you" being whispered.
Frank Mackey couldn't control his mother...he was left in control of her and when she died, he became angry at his father for it. So now, he's a sex guru he refuses to let go of his control of women. In the interview, when he cannot manipulate the interviewer Gwenovier any longer, he simply stops talking. Once again, at the end, you almost hear him whisper "I love you" to his father.
Claudia is also being controlled by drugs. She is angry at her father for supposedly molesting her. She sees molestation as a crime of control, and refuses to speak to Jimmy again, in fear that he might manipulate her somehow again.
Now though you may see these things differently, this is how I see them...as control issues. And the frogs all meant something different to each person...
Well anyway...I've been up here too long...
--Matt
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