Cosmic Slop story
A film consisting of three Twilight Zone-like stories about the destiny of the world's minorities.
23 total · 13 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | In "Tang": Tang and her lazy, unemployed boyfriend T-Bone. |
| Catholicism | major | In "The First Commandment": The Catholic priest Father Carlos' was tasked by his diocese to get people of a Puerto Rican community to stop venerating a pagan deity and obey church orthodoxy. |
| conflict of duty | major | In "The First Commandment": Father Carlos was under heavy pressure from the diocese cardinal to oversee moving a popular pagan statue to a museum, but the priest was reluctant to move the statue because it was bound up with his cultural heritage. |
| coping with a crisis of faith | major | In "The First Commandment": The devout catholic Father Carlos had a mental breakdown when a pagan statue came to live and announced itself to him to be the god Oshun, rather than as the Virgin Mary as he expected. |
| family financial problem | major | In "Tang": Tang was selling blood and participating in clinical trials to support herself and her unemployed boyfriend T-Bone. |
| miracle | major | In "The First Commandment": A statue of a saint turned real and issued blessings out of a crack house to all comers. |
| religious occupation | major | In "The First Commandment": The Catholic priest Father Carlos is the story's protagonist. |
| self-confidence | major | In "Tang": The story concludes with T-Bone explaining to Tang that she hadn't become anything in life exactly because she'd been told all her life that she wouldn't amount to anything. |
| selling out for money | major | In "Space Traders": The conservative African American politician Gleason Golightly was an Uncle Tom who'd spent his entire life enriching himself by undermining blacks in America. |
| social inequality | major | In "Space Traders": The wealth gap between black and white America was on display. In particular, a newscaster stated that the gap between black and white salaries was widening. |