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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
"Nostalgia" means longing for the past. We can trace the word to the Greek nostos, meaning "homecoming," like Odysseus's rollercoaster journey home from Troy. It implies comfort, peace, and safety—an escape from the chaotic, dangerous present, and from the terrifying forward march of time.
At first blush, I Saw the TV Glow seems to belong to that unstoppable post-pandemic wave of nostalgia bait. It rewinds its VHS tapes; it licks the staticky surface of a TV screen; it reupholsters its…
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The Social Network 2010
Correctly portrays Zuck as pretentious, insensitive, and chauvinistic—but I can't help but feel that this film pulls its punches. Aside from a couple quick disgust reaction shots by female Harvard students, it doesn't comment much on Facemash. I've been thinking a lot recently about how you can never really separate things from how they started. The SAT started as an IQ test designed to exclude people of color, there's a private school down the street from me that started as…
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Poor Things 2023
What compels people in movie theaters to prop their stinky feet on the seats in front of them? What would drive a moviegoer to tolerate the first ten sex scenes but walk out during the eleventh? Just as polite society mystifies Bella Baxter, theatrical society mystifies me.
Where does anyone start with this film? Poor Things repeatedly asks, "Can this—ourselves, our world, everything—be improved?" God Baxter might say yes, but through science and science alone. The General might also say…
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