The Brilliant Satire of Animal Crackers

Ezra James
5 min readJun 18, 2021
The Marx brother posing for a photograph. From left to right, Chico, Groucho, Harpo, and Zeppo Marx.

My personal journey through cinema has led me to its early stages. I have recently been watching films from the 1920s and 30s at a very consistent basis, and I have no intention of stopping. The interest was always there but I never got a chance to fully act on it. What set me over the edge recently is this impulsive need to understand more about the past and what it says in relation to our times. The instinct led me to…

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Ezra James

Absurd journalist and essayist from the outskirts of Shambhala.