Cake: When All Else Fails, Eat It (Planet Connections 2010)
by Stephen Tortora-Lee on June 24, 2010
Marie Antoinette is famous for the saying, “Let them eat cake!”
Whether she actually said it or not doesn’t really matter in the face of history or the minds of the people whose rumor-mill worked overtime and managed to get her head in the guillotine anyway.
Cake (written by Felipe Ossa and directed by Leah Bonvissuto) helps us to imagine what would happen approximately 200 years later if - instead of a monarch – we get someone like Dana Dunnigan (Ramona Floyd) who lives on the conservative right and has a radio talk show where her celebrity and the power of her notoriety among her detractors very well might lead to her beheading too. It’s the glorification by an adoring fan-base, determined to save her, that helps keep her around.
