2025/03/01

PRESCOE MARX

In this dream I was watching a very strange movie. In the dream, it was a movie that I had seen airing on TV in the past and had finally identified and rediscovered. It was apparently called Prescoe Marx, and focused on a young high schooler named Prescoe Marx. The film was set in the capital city of the state I grew up in, back in the 1990s. It was nostalgic to watch as it looked quite different. This high schooler seemed to have some kind of magical powers that he had discovered. The world also seemed to be in some kind of crisis. There was a group of terrorists who had been waging war against the government. The scene I remembered focused on Prescoe who was living with his aunt in the city who he did not like. He had met a girl and they found a number of animals. They were running around the house. It seemed like they had created these animals out of their mind. The aunt returned and freaked out. A small monkey ran up to her and crawled through her dress in a slapstick fashion. One of Prescoe's friends, a nerdy black guy with glasses, took a rock out into the yard and started breaking it with a hammer, saying he was looking for gold.

I continued watching the movie and really enjoying it, thinking it was crazy and weird and that I had to show it to my friends. The next point in the movie I remember was its long end sequence. Prescoe and his friends stepped into an elevator up to some government organization. They were equipped with their chuuni-esque powers and were going to stop some group of terrorists. When they stepped into the elevator, a group of their high school bullies were in there. The bullies started beating them up. Somehow, they defeated them by turning the whole spectacle into a kind of animated sequence where all the people in the elevator turned into very poorly-animated characters and did a kind of Benny Hill dance sequence, doing the Charleston and whatnot. I at that point laughed and said something like "what the fuck is this movie?"

Prescoe and his friends evaded the bullies and other members in the government building when they got to the top floor. It shifted to a kind of overhead, Metal Gear Solid-esque sequence where they snuck through the office, even behind the government workers themselves who seemed completely oblivious to them. Prescoe and his friends got to the terrorist cell and heard their commands. It was a group of individuals in the US military. They had a humorously silly and inconsequential demand: For some group of US warplanes to have slightly longer wings with an added stripe on them. The government goes "Uh... okay!" Peace then seems to return. The last scene had Prescoe and his mother walking through the city. It was a Sunday evening and the mood was one of content and happiness. Shops were open and people were milling about. However, when they turned a corner, the sky turned black and a few police helicopters flew out overhead, doing an unannounced sweep. It seems that the new administration had turned it into a police state. One man bent down and pleaded "WE were supposed to be the ones in charge!" The film then ended on an ominous note. I wanted to show this movie to friends now.

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