References To Real-life Events
Many issues are tackled in this film. Neo-Nazism and abortion are present in the film, as well as references to the dragging of a black man in Texas and the Columbine High School massacre. Furthermore, the terrorist group at the beginning of the film is called the Diaper Mafia, in reference to the real-life Trenchcoat Mafia, a high school clique that the two Columbine shooters were believed to be part-time members of.
The film premiered in the United States shortly following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Most mainstream film companies that featured the World Trade Center underwent additional editing to avoid distress. Kaufman chose to leave the World Trade Center in the final cut of the film, arguing that most viewers would be able to see the Twin Towers without being distressed.
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“If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)