I SAW THE TV GLOW Movie Review **SPOILER ALERT**
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2024
- Gay homosexuals Nick and Joseph spoil I Saw the TV Glow - a 2024 American psychological horror-thriller film written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun.
Premise: Two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show, but it is mysteriously cancelled.
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Cast:
Justice Smith as Owen
Ian Foreman as younger Owen
Brigette Lundy-Paine as Maddy
Helena Howard as Isabel
Fred Durst as Frank
Danielle Deadwyler as Brenda
Lindsey Jordan as Tara
Amber Benson as Johnny Link's Mom
Conner O'Malley as Dave
Emma Portner as Mr. Melancholy/Marco/Amanda Evil Clown
Michael C. Maronna as Neighbor #1
Danny Tamberelli as Neighbor #2
Phoebe Bridgers as herself
Haley Dahl as herself
Kristina Esfandiari as herself
Cinematography by Eric K. Yue
Edited by Sofi Marshall
Music by Alex G
Keywords: ending explained, reaction video, trailer, A24, Sundance Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, SXSW, We're All Going to the World's Fair - Zábava
Went to the restroom during the monologue. Got back and she was still mid monologue 🤣
The idea of David Lynch making a YA film made me laugh hard.That will be stuck in my head all day.
I would definitely see it if he ever did one.
Lynch's most successful show, Twin Peaks, was about many teenage characters (if not actors) in high school.
Joseph’s facial reactions to Nick’s pull quotes are my favorite thing 😂
Thanks boys for watching crap so I don't have to"! Guess if I want to watch something truly scary, I could watch Jaguar wright tell the truth! Truth is stranger than fiction!👍✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜😎
'Acting' like life is a video game or a movie to cope is called dissociation. I do it voluntarily, which is okay, but some people just slip into it, and need help.
ya ... I was wondering if Maddy was schizophrenic. But I guess the point was to keep the audience in the dark.
My hand at cutting through the dense fog of metaphor. Would love knowing what you two think through its lens.
The Pink Opaque is a mirror to Owen and Maddy, except instead of being a literal psychic connection like Tara and Isabel share, their unseen "Psychic connection" metaphorically is that they are fighting a similar battle with their own identity.
When Owen first sees Maddy, he recognizes her book, a metaphor for something he was exposed to on TV for the first time the night prior. She shows him it and shares encouragingly, seeing his curiosity in The Pink Opaque. The book is more than just an episode guide, it is exposure to an idea.
Owen's strict "curfew" is a euphonism for the strict boundaries in which he had to live inside his home. He was only exposed to The Pink Opaque when he could sneak away from the prying eyes of his parents over at Maddy's.
In high school and meeting Maddy again on the bleachers, Owen shares that he was too afraid to look inside himself in fear of what he would find in that empty space, so he represses it, and you can see it in his mannerisms and behavior. Maddy is fighting her own battle, sharing how persecuted she feels by her peers and the betrayal of her ex-best friend when she trusted and shared her real self.
Convinced that she would die if she has to stay in “town” for much longer, Maddy makes her escape. She invites Owen to follow her, but he's gets cold feet, tattling on himself to get grounded, not having to face the decision. The show ending on season 5 shortly after was evidence of her liberation, the final episode depicting the Maddy which Owen had known being buried, and that Owen was close behind except for himself, it was by force. The Pink Opaque was only an ongoing journey for him while Maddy was there with him.
Maddy describes the years passing by so fast since the "show ended", by 22 had had enough of time passing her by unhappily, and finally broke out of her coffin and was reborn as who she really was, clearly cutting her hair and expressing herself. It's a Maddy that Owen didn't even recognize at first. She brings Owen to a safe space to speak, a sapphic bar.
Before telling her own journey, she first pesters Owen with whether he had reached his own conclusion yet. Not hearing the answer she was hoping for, she explains she found not only herself, her true beating heart in the freezer, but also Owens in recognizing that they had always been in this conflict together, the nightmare realm of the show, and the present nightmare of living under the wrong identity.
Maddy had "escaped" the show after the end of season 5. She describes how she asked to be buried alive (what did that boy really do to her for $50 ‘unknowingly’ ?...), explaining how she reborned herself, prying herself out of her coffin. Being “Buried” in this film is a euphonism for being trapped in the closet. She escaped melancholy. She escaped her closet. Owen originally tried to go after her, seeing the scene of the crime outside her home. She had made it out of the TV burning in the front yard leaving him. Yet, she was trauma bonded with Owen. Whether out of love or just guilt for how she left him behind “in town” or in parallel to the show, succumbing to Mr. Melancholy, she couldn't move forward with her life into season 6 with her own heart as Tara, knowing Owen and Isabel were still living in hell without theirs.
When Maddy invites him the next evening to directly confront this realization with him, he resists, calling her insane, rejecting looking inside himself. Maddy states she is certain that he already knows deep down as well what's there. Think back she says, as he recalls trying on her dresses at her house one of those Saturday night sleepovers.
On the football field, Owen repeats the tv show premise that the monsters in the drain don't exist if he doesn't think of them. He refuses to fight the battle inside, and rejects Maddy's guidance right at the end before the process of rebirth. Maddy stares on as he runs away, and this time doesn't come back for them. After years of being dedicated to taping and sharing The Pink Opaque, she finally went back for her heart to live on as Tara and gave up on Isabel. She was not going to stop drinking the lunar juice and ever wake up.
Owen watches the final episode again, every rewatch ever closer to their breakthrough in who they really are, and this time he even jumps into the TV, so close to escaping his personal hell as Maddy did 8 years earlier, but his abusive and judgmental father who once told him The Pink Opaque was just for girls pulled him back in, "waking him up" by force over the tub and back into his "Snow Globe".
The most obvious euphonism was little Owen inside the snow globe, seeing the flashing pinks, blues, and whites luminating from the TV screen the very first time he saw the show "advertised" (though he was never really "familiar" yet), and another moment of awakening inside the clearly Pink, Blue, and White colored Parachute, these being the colors of the transgender pride flag.
As time wears he doesn’t even relate to the plot of The Pink Opaque anymore when revisiting it, the feelings he once held are so repressed it’s unrecognizable.
12 years go by since he rejects retrieving his heart back, and his asthma is getting worse. He's nearly dying by age 35, insinuating the young ages at which trans people so often reach the end of their lives. His inhaler stops working, he can't keep going. Even when he desperately cuts himself open to see what's inside, Owen allows himself the brief relief in the bathroom mirror. Isabel has died and he made sure of it. But he still dresses back up and returns to work, continuing to apologize for who she really is as Maddy had warned him to stop doing in her living room 22 years prior.
this was exactly my read on it! as a person who discovered their trans identity with one of my friends in high school, this movie captured those exact same emotions. i really enjoyed this movie.
@ambrosine8689 so cool it was relatable, much of Jane's stories are sewn with thay shared experience
Joseph you recounting your adolescence made me choke up 😢 I’m glad you’re having a wonderful life now! ❤️
Thats so funny, my favorite parts of the movie were the soundtrack:
_ Taper by Maria BC
_ Psychic Wound by King Woman
_ Claw Machine by Sloppy Janes
Very interesting concept , i think the director and/or writer needs a creative partner to help them flesh out their ideas more and improve the pacing of the movie.
The Pink Opaque is a Cocteau Twins compilation album of singles and best tracks from 1982-1985. Great songs
Nice ... a lil Cocteau Twins montage would have been a highlight and fight right in.
Is that a Grace Jones tee shirt on Nick? Love it! Remember her in Boomerang? Classic.
Yes
Sleep Away Camp was always my go to when I had a sleep over. Purely to disturb the other kids who weren’t allowed to watch horror.
This TV didn’t glow for me either.
I have to agree with Joseph 2.5 stars. The two central performances were uninteresting and uncompelling and Schoenbrun needs a co writer to help flesh out their ideas.
I really enjoyed it but do agree that there were some parts that just didn’t connect all the way. Overall I enjoyed the design and story just wish it was a little more fleshed out. The music truly was fabulous, the soundtrack has been on repeat for me ever since I heard Caroline Polacheck made “Starburned and Unkissed” for it.
I had episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark that haunted my memories and turned out to be cheesy when I rewatched them as an adult. I really think the effect wouldnt work if the audience knew the show as something cheesy first, from firsthand experience.
Same thing with goosebumps
"Rose McGowen is a trigger for me." Me too, Joseph!
Wait please provide me with context, I’m just curious
@@Lexmadison she's a TERF
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Joseph’s face after the mention of Jordan Catalano 😂
"I don't believe that you can take care of YOURSELF!" lmao I died
The song when they was at the bar made me feel like that’s what the whole movie was about but definitely a lot of Ideas that diddnt get clarified and the narration was terrible it just seemed like they did not have the budget for what they where trying to convey and it fell short like a straight airball don’t waste your money… this is like Donnie darko sipping on lean slow… 🤪
I was a goth teenager in school in the 90's and had a queer friend 2 years older than me. our favorite show was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We always watched it together .
This movie gives me chill
I honestly don’t know how Nick sat through this a second time. The movie was so unbelievably boring. The little dialogue we get is just basically repeated over and over again. Saw this at a packed theater at Lincoln Center and half the audience was asleep when the lights came up. Loved your review, but you couldn’t pay me to watch this again.
Movie theater was awkwardly silent an waiting in the chairs after the credits lol. This movie made “Beau is afraid” feel like a short film an not in a good way.
I saw Beau is afraid twice, first on edibles, and loved every second of it
XFiles plus Saved by the Bell??? Hell yes, please.
I completely agree with you guys, though I think I liked it a little bit more than both of you! The technicals are impeccable, but the second half kind of lost me lol. Might go see this again in wide release, great review guys!
Love the shirt Nick! And the review guys.
"Maddie looks like she doesn't sleep." lol
I thought Maddy looked a lot like a young Winona Ryder in many of the scenes lol
My reoccuring thought was ... please make it end. Why won't this movie end???
Just watched this film last night. Went into it blind, not having seen the trailer or knowing anything about it. 😂 needless to say, im happy yall feel pretty much the same way i do
So… is this a yay or nay from you?
I’m a writer/actor and I can’t understand why soo many adults, so many of my peers even are stuck making films about teenagers that’s aren’t actually teenagers… it makes me cringe so hard
because teenagers aren't such good actors?
Not necessarily, i think the content is actually too mature for them but still features them… very much the vibe of Euphoria and shows like that
Nice review!
Have you guys watched The Wailing 2016 Korean horror?.
❤❤.
Yes, Nick owns it.
Justice Smith is great in Detective Pikachu
Love the grace jones shirt
Have you guys watched Baby Reindeer? Would love to hear your thoughts.
czcams.com/video/gMj5jmhh5XA/video.htmlsi=7ltWMTwvlyRRFB-4
There seems to be an increasing number of films where the entire point is "it's a metaphor!" and then not really much beyond that.
Exactly how I felt with Beau is afraid but that movie is so crazy you can at least appreciate the attempt of it.
Pity. I really enjoyed Schoenbrun's first film.
Mee too!
Good chance you’ll enjoy it these guys shit on their debut
@@fi8urefilms959 Ah, good to know.
Are you guys reviewing Tarot?
No
I love y’all 😂
This film seems like it could be pretty polarizing. For me, I’m on the pole that loves it. It’s actually between this and Hundreds of Beavers for my favorite film of the year so far. I found this one to be a pretty unique film that I haven’t seen anything like before.
Where can we see this film?
It’s playing at my local Alamo Drafthouse. Maybe you have one too. But I’m sure you can find something else nearby probably
I love this movie to death but it’s definitely not for everyone. I grew up lonely using the internet and watching CZcams in the 2000s, and something about the completely bizarre awkwardness and monologues perfectly captures this feeling in a way most films just can’t. It feels like someone who wrote WattPad stories or read Homestuck as a kid. The Lynch YA point is hilarious and I think related to these kinds of feelings and aesthetics. In many ways the scene with “Claw Machine” feels like the “The Nightingale” scene from Twin Peaks or “Blue Velvet” scene from Blue Velvet.
The Sloppy Jane scene broke me.
I fux w justice since the get down but this was NOT it
Why haven’t you watched Till?
All the bright places was a good justice smith movie
I haven’t seen the movie but a tear stained copy of the book worked it’s way through my friend group when I was a teen
Sad y'all didn't like it that much I couldn't stop thinking about it since i left SXSW and i just kept reading more into it and have grown to love it. But I can see what you wouldn't enjoy in it. Great review still guys. ❤
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I loved we are all going to the world fair so I can't wait to check this out
Awesome review. Not an awesome movie
5:30
Glowing chest ending, thanks, wont be watching this 😂 sounds borning asf.
I loved We're All Going to the World's Fair
I totally agree about Rose McGowan, eww
might it work better for someone with shared transfemme trauma? (me lol)
So far all the reviews I've seen of this have divided on age lines, the younger the reviewer the more they liked it. But none have been bad just ok-to rave
Sounds like a shattered microwaved version of lost highway
I wanted this to be good 😢
It was the most pretentious movie I’ve ever seen.
what is that even supposed to mean
I'm gonna see this for the simple and admittedly shallow reason that I feel BLP is one of the most gorgeous humans on this planet.
I feel it's about escapism from the fear of not bonding over a death in the family, also, being "influenced" to watch a show that's unsuitable. But, the plot is flimsy enough for the hairstyle choices to be criticized, so that's a negative!
Googled it and saw Fred Durst. That's never a good sign. Unless it's 'The Fanatic' which is one of the funniest films I've ever seen.
He's barely in the movie
@@CyranoForever101 I had already assumed that was the case
Nick I enjoy your shirt. Who is that woman? Is she a celebrity? Also Joseph I'm not the biggest fan of Rose McGowan or Anne Hathaway for that matter. So I concur with you on the former actress. Despite Rose exposing Weinstein she is crazy and attention seeking.
Grace Jones
I'm not familiar with her to my knowledge. I will do some research. Thank you!
What a grungy little wierdo of a movie