‘Loon’-y
JENNY BLOCK | Contributing Writer JennyEBlock@icloud.com The proof is in the pudding they say. That certainly seems to be the case when it comes to the short film Crazy as a Loon.
The film, which falls firmly between the drama and suspense categories, serves as a proof-of-concept for a TV series based on the true events of the Lavender Scare, the “hunting down and purging of homosexuals from government jobs, which later became a template for colleges and universities and eventually seeped into the private sector,” the film’s creators explain.
Truman’s Pervert Elimination Act of 1947 was the starting point for the Lavendar Scare, which lasted until the Obama administration in 2010.
Sadly, though, the behaviors in many ways still continue today. The creators call Crazy as a Loon an American story “The film should feel like we are living inside a history book we didn’t open in school.
