Man, the things I miss…I never noticed the issues just under the surface of Little Shop of Horrors…

Original Article (scroll down):

http://www.countrymiceandcitymice.com/?gclid=CO_MsfT9yYsCFSFSUAodoi9_Bw

From SuburbiaNation:

Seemingly a whimsical musical comedy about the dreams of working-class whites in the postwar era looking to escape the city and find a better life in the suburbs, the film takes the form of an allegory of postwar “white flight” to the suburbs, as its protagonist, Seymour, a meek clerk at a florist’s shop, must run for his life from a creature named “Audrey 2″… Shocked when he discovers the plant can talk - in a raunchy and confrontational, black urban dialect… Seymour becomes further terrified as the plant grows more aggressive, displaying an insatiable appetite and, when his demands for food are not met, eventually destroying the florist’s shop and ravaging the surrounding working-class neighborhood before he is finally killed. The paranoid allegorical rendering does not end there, however; after Seymour and his love, Audrey, manage to escape to their dream home in Suburbia, the final frame of the film reveals a small army of “Audrey 2″ plants growing amid the crabgrass of their front yard. A shockingly paranoid fantasy of racial conflict and flight, Little Shop of Horrors closes by confirming its own worst fears: that blacks might manage to escape the city just like whites and eventually “sprout up” on the suburban landscape.