Bimbo's Initiation

1931

★★★★★ Liked

Bimbo was the first victim of the dreaded Saw trap. There are a lot of wonderful details to this assembly line of gruesome, paradoxical suffering Bimbo is forced to farcically march through in order to not conform to the demands of whatever subterranean torture/sex cult is trying to indoctrinate him (the dancing candle flame, the ass-slapping bicycle, the decapitated shadow) but my favorite was the sentient knife blade sticking out of the upside-down kitchen that salivates and licks its lips as Bimbo keeps getting pulled closer to it. As always with the best cartoons of this era it's as much horror as it is comedy, and horniness eventually trumps violence. Not sure which theory I subscribe to yet but there are dozens of them out there ranging from Bimbo being seduced by Disney, the Illuminati, the KKK, the same group Tom Cruise was in Eyes Wide Shut. Lots to think about in 6 minutes.

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