In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger
by Jessica Yu
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Actor: Dakota Fanning, Frier McCollister, Henry Darger, Larry Pine, Wally WingertDirector: Jessica Yu
Brand: Genius
Writer: Henry Darger
Producer: Jessica Yu
Writer: Jessica Yu
Producer: Cara Mertes
Producer: Ellin Baumel
Producer: Joan Huang
Producer: Kara Vallow
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 81 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Fox Lorber
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- Henry Darger, an elderly recluse, spent his childhood in Illinois's asylum for feeble-minded children and his adulthood working as a janitor. He lived a quiet, nearly solitary existence, but his imaginary life was exciting, colorful and sexually provocative. When he died in Chicago in 1973, his landlady discovered in his room 300 paintings, some over 10 feet long, and a 15,000-page illustrated
DVD Reviews of In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger
DVD Review: Darger a genuis mind
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read many of the adult reviews and I am astonished at the adult minds narrow and ignorant attitude toward the genius mind of Henry Darger. Even if he was "mentally challenged" (as one adult put it "retarded")does that determine whether or not someone's work or art should be valued as good enough or genius work? Even if someone is retarded that has no constitution or basis as to whether or not his work his good. Many mentally challegend people are really genius' trapped inside a brain that processes information differently than the rest of people and often see the world in a very different light than the rest of us, they understand things to a degree that the rest of us would never be able to grasp and they are often borderline semi-quaditic genuis, mostly they often just have a learning disability that interfers with their intire life, such as being able to read or being able to math, such as people with dyscalculia, who cannot count simple change, but can paint and draw like a hidden genuis. Darger was not some deranged child wanna murderer, he proposed through a graphic vivid sci-fi world how abused, neglected and abandoned children are treated and how children are often the victim in wars, slavery and how many are and still molested, killed etc because of religion (example: Priests molesting kids, petafiles), children are the scapegoats of our society becaue they are innocent and the innocent in times of turmoil always get hurt or slaughtered. Today children are being kidnapped at alarming rates, they are sold into sex slavery, sold into prostitution as puppets on the internet, sold oversea's and vice versa to horny old men for the use of the sexaul deveances. Children are killed by the parents, example: mother's who kill their kids, an alarming statistic in today's society. Children are often raped in wars, example: Vietnam war girls as young as three were rapped by soldiers. Darger depicted disturbing images of girls being slaugeterd because females are always more vunerable in wars than males are and he used adrongenous children with female and male sexaul orgins to give them power, women are always impowered in times of tumoil if they become strong and emotionless like men during times of war and the use of the Christians was to depict how religion is mankinds worst evil, because especially religious wars aim to brainwash the less impowered to beleive without questioning. Thousands of religious wars have been fought since the dawn of time and children were always the first ones to be slaughtered. Hiroshima, WWI, WWII (hundreds of Jewish children slaughtered), Vietnam, The Salem Witch trails: Thousands of girls were massacerd because the Priests claimed they were Witches, etc, even in Iraq today childrena are being killed-by accident and more often in times of firing on BOTH sides. Children are always the first to be killed in times of war time because a child's death is more greusome than an adults because their life has just begun and a child's death is more mournful and sorrowful and that's what enemies wish to acheive to hurt the other side as much as possible-to stick it to them where is really will cuase a sorroful impact-kill a Father's child and that Father becomes an avengeful man, etc.
Darger wrote a story about children (girls) being killed in a religious war, but so many people call him a lunatic or crazy when in fact he had the guts to depict what often really happens to children, but as a society these kind of greusome images are often too hard to come to terms with, so we say "it doesn't happen, " "it never happened", "I don't want to hear about it", because we as a whole society refuse to accept that bad things really do and can happen to children, especially to little girls, therefore Darger as often been shuned because people would reather call him a "retarded imbecile" rather than look more deeply into what he is telling us: That children are our greatest asset and should be protected to no avail and that war is an unessary evil.
"He who has no sin shall throw the first stone!!" Darger was telling us something:Children should be loved and taken care of and, espcailly the abandoned and thrown away children!!! Read between the lines and you will "see" what he is saying, in essence he was retelling the tragedies of his own horrible childhood. Also for the guy who said that Darger was retarded read some history books, he was sent to an insane asylum by his poverty stricken father, because in those days that's where pauper children were sent, but he was not retarded, he did though have a congential heart defeat, his heart was too small and in the wrong place!!!Read his history and you will know, don't write if you do not know what youa re talking about!!
Description of In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger
Henry Darger, an elderly recluse, spent his childhood in Illinois's asylum for feeble-minded children and his adulthood working as a janitor. He lived a quiet, nearly solitary existence, but his imaginary life was exciting, colorful and sexually provocative. When he died in Chicago in 1973, his landlady discovered in his room 300 paintings, some over 10 feet long, and a 15,000-page illustrated novel (The Realms of the Unreal), which told the epic story of the virtuous Vivian Girls leading a child slave revolt against the evil Glandelinians. Featuring Dakota Fanning (Hide and Seek) and Larry Pine (The Royal Tenenbaums) as narrators and imaginative animation of Darger's work, Oscar® winner Jessica Yu (Breathing Lessons) brings to life one of the twentieth century's greatest self-taught artists.Bestsellers in DVD
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