MrMandolino

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Game slash narrative designer, sometimes I make music but I need to be in a really good mood for that to happen

I had a really funny joke here but it broke the website on mobile


watched I Saw The TV Glow

i can't say it had the same emotionally devastating impact it seems to have had on a lot of people I follow, which has to do with growing up in the US i feel. there's a strong metaphorical aspect at work in that sense as well

but damn if it didn't make me emotional

what a movie. exactly the kind of pace i adore - slow, reflective, focused on showcasing the beauty of filmmaking in all its aspects, not just plot and acting - ALL parts of filmmaking play a symbolic and significant role here, from aspect ration to film grain to the extremely intentional choice of framing in every single one of its scene

which is already a massive endorsement but what really got me was how much of a modern movie this feels. there's a like... post-postmodern approach to it that makes me think of someone who grew up watching Adult Swim and internet creepypasta BUT ALSO 90's show like Buffy which feels like a clear point of reference BUT ALSO a lot of indie movies and games BUT ALSO needed to express an extremely, painfully direct scream about life as it feels rather than life as depicted BUT ALSO wanted to tell a postmodern metanarrative about movies which might be about being transgender and/or looking back at the media of our youth after growing up? it's something that could be described as "a brutally confident mishmash of genres" by critics who don't keep their ear to the ground

it's hyperpop in film form. it feels like the filmic equivalent of a 100 gecs or SOPHIE album - postmodernism that went beyond the irony for a full hearted embrace of itself, breaking through layers and layers of possible irony to make a painfully wholehearted point. it might be the closest i've felt a movie got to something like Night in the Woods or Kentucky Route Zero, and i may be fully boss babying myself here, but it's also a movie that feels made for the kind of people who both know what boss babying means and worry about how often they might be doing it

incredibly, incredibly good. and incredibly, incredibly heavy

it makes me happy to live when i live, no matter how absurdly hard things are at the moment

it's also a movie that hits a lot harder, i feel, when you're in your thirties and you can relate to certain points a certain character makes about a fantastic but definitely metaphoric element of the plot


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