Earlier in this thread I commented that I didn't find the ceremony offensive or blasphemous but this blitz of gaslighting
is offensive.
The rotund woman in the centre of the scene has a crown and saintly halo as seen in hundreds if not thousands of depictions of Jesus Christ in European traditional painting and they posed (in their half-assed attempted to look) like the scene of Da Vinci's Last Supper. It's unmistakable. There's no point denying it or pretending it didn't happen. Allegedly, this section of the show was referred to
La Cène Sur Un Scène Sur La Seine which shouldn't surprise you because it was very much what it was: The Last Supper on a stage on the Seine.
(The rotund person in the middle, Barbara Butch, on their personal Instagram, referred to it as "
The Gay New Testament".)
Then there was a lot of ineffective and sloppy dance numbers and then the Dionysus figure in blue came out and one of the background guys whipped out his balls and they sang a song about how we're all nude. Whatever, who cares. It's just tasteless.
I don't think anything about that was excellent but it's a matter of taste. The whole part celebrating fashion and then the disco barge was too long and boring, even the commentators were confused. The Minions were unnecessary. Lady Gaga was unnecessary. The can-can dance from the Moulin Rouge dancers was sloppy. The weather didn't help but it is what it is.