I have read The Divine Comedy before and I can tell you that I hated this variation on Inferno. One thing that this did bring up for me though was the idea of perspective. Nowadays, we see parody cartoon everywhere from the newspaper, Southpark, Jibjab.com, etc. and I know for one that I find them to seem very cheap, dated, and (sometimes) rather unintelligent due to all the pop culture references and what not. For me, I feel as though this film fell into that category. With that in mind, I began to wonder if people in the past thought similarly when satirical pieces featuring prominent people and events of the day came out. Did someone in the 14th century who read Inferno think to themselves as they picked up on all of the satire "what a low blow that is!" or "Ugh, I'm so tired of hearing about [insert event, person, place prominent at the time]!" Did those kinds of "pop culture" references diminish and date the story as much for them as the ones in the movie did for me? Just an interesting point to ponder...
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