The Funhouse

The Funhouse is a surrealistic vision of American society and politics during the era of the Vietnam War. The  protagonist, recently emigrated from Latin-America to the United States, experiences the Vietnam-tainted culture through the warped lens of an amusement park funhouse. Relationships are subjected to the Chamber of Horrors which perverts love, sex and family into random acts of corruption, violence and inhumanity. All who seek love and companionship must pass through the Hall of Mirrors which reveals the truth about the often distorted and obscured self-image.

Alegría captures the spirit and ideology of the sixties and reignites its guiding light of salvation: uncompromising, all-embracing love.